For those of you who haven't had the chance to watch yet:
https://www.joshuawood.net/notes/2020-railsconf-dhh-keynote
One of the parts I liked best was this comment:
Ruby is great because you can know a little JavaScript and then jump to Ruby, understand it, and own the full stack.
What do y'all think about the state of Ruby and Rails in 2020?
Top comments (3)
I don't care for Webpacker being part of the stack.
It's odd because generally Rails has been reserved on integration such kind of conveniences.
I don't like how its not at easy to start a Rails project as prior
Yeah, I'm torn on that. I personally have warmed to Rails embracing Webpacker because I've had to support issues with the asset pipeline/sprockets, and there is a lot of friction there. It's not that the old way is bad--I think it fits better into Rails, but it complicates using Rails with the modern JavaScript ecosystem so much that the bad outweighs the good. Webpacker has also been getting a lot better in my experience. I used to dread working with it, but I prefer it now.
We use webpacker at DEV and initially, I thought maybe we don't necessarily need it, but it just integrates so well and in some cases, we've had to use the erb-loader 👉🏻
github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/...
Overall, I'm pretty happy with the integration.