[laverick]

I'm in the middle of converting a small production Rails API + Ember app to Rails Views + Vue.js using webpacker and a lot of the techniques discussed. It's certainly been a learning curve, but I'm definitely happier with the new setup for all of the reasons you mentioned.

It's not a one-size-fits-all solution, but for a single dev / small team working on a web-only application it can make a lot of sense.

For anyone interested, Gorails has a series on Vue + Rails that's been very helpful. https://gorails.com/series/using-vuejs-with-rails