Matestack – Reactive UIs in pure Ruby
Love the idea of it, even if it's not for me. Ruby needs new blood infused into it.<p>I realized recently that Rails started losing its popularity because it just didn't quite keep up as the web evolved. Where the framework and its community resources (guides/tutorials) should have started promoting REST APIs and out-of-the-box no-friction compatibility with modern tooling like npm/webpack/react/whatever, instead it stuck with "the Asset Pipeline," purely MVC-style full-page-reload apps, and things like Coffeescript/jQuery by default.<p>It's really unfortunate because Rails is such a brilliant framework, and Ruby such a lovely language, and they're falling out of the mainstream and losing popularity because of this. I wish the community would re-align.<p>Michael Hartl's book, the go-to "learn Rails" resource, is a classic example. I think it's costing the community more than helping it nowadays. Although it's a great guide, it just feels weirdly out of date to be building a purely MVC full-page-reload app. And I think for every person it helps, five people look at it and think "seem like this isn't what I need for my project."