Ask HN: Has been your experience moving everything to React

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1 points by harshs08 2455 days ago

I work in a Rails shop where we have a monolith with most of the frontend written in either; 1. Server rendered haml pages. 2. Client side React.

Currently, there's a discussion going on to move all stuff to react.

Curious about people's experiences and thoughts about it.

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zhdc1 2455 days ago

I wrote a pretty sophisticated longitudinal study app that's currently being used by a top 100 university. The front end is entirely in React.

I only have limited experience with Ruby, but tbh, I think I would feel more comfortable maintaining a front end code base either in Ruby or React, not both. Then again, I usually operate alone and my personal preferences definitely play a role.

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