Pure Rails

React + Rails

React SPA

Applications

🛑 Page transitions feel slow or clunky

• Full page transitions are slow and disrupt people's workflows
• Turbolinks help make application feel modern, but come with their own issues

🛑 Page transitions feel slow or clunky

• See Pure Rails

✅ Page transitions feel natural and responsive

• Transition between pages can be feel like a native application, and be instantaneous

🛑 Dynamic page state is difficult to manage well

🔶 Dynamic page state is much easier

• You can link all react components to the same data source

✅ Dynamic page state is built in

• All components share the same data source and state flows freely between them

Content Websites

🔶 Page transitions are still a little slower

🔶 There is very little dynamic content to manage

🔶 Page transitions are still a little slower

🔶 There is very little dynamic content to manage

🔶 Page transitions are smoother, but not noticeable

🔶 There is very little dynamic content to manage

Comparison