Pure Rails

React + Rails

React SPA

✅ Can stand up prototypes easily

• Lots of prebuilt server/client utilities to leverage
  • ActiveStorage
  • ActiveText
  • ActionCable
  • Etc.
• Stay within the framework to move quickly!

🛑 You're just adding complexity with little gain

🔶 Numerous high quality tutorials

• You can pull in UI libraries to speed yourself up
• Client/server isn't tightly integrated so there's a bit more work for those things (Think ActiveStorage)

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