ES6/ES2015 or Coffee-Script for new Project?

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Hello,

I'm new to the RoR community. I'm reading "Rails 4 in Action" (August 2015)

They recommend using Coffee-script.

Is that still in vogue, or is using ES6/ES2015 the way to go now, for new apps?

Thanks, Quang

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Quang Van <lists@ruby-forum.com> writes:

I'm new to the RoR community. I'm reading "Rails 4 in Action" (August 2015)

They recommend using Coffee-script.

Is that still in vogue, or is using ES6/ES2015 the way to go now, for new apps?

Great question. Rails itself doesn't yet support the transpilers needed for things like React.JS and so on, but people have already stepped up with gems and such to support them. Note this may change by the time RoR5 drops, too.

If you're just learning, you may want to stick with coffee for now and keep JS interaction to a minimum (again, for now), as there's a ton to learn about the entire Rails platform. There will be time for everything, I promise, just not all at once. :slight_smile: Rails makes a really great backing web app for modern front end applications. So far what I've experienced, and this is only a tiny view into the whole world of it, writing a Rails web app to provide an API that can be used by many front-end apps, desktop and mobile, seems a popular way to go.

All opinions! Not hard-and-fast facts, and everything is rapidly changing.