[azangru]

> if you're looking to hire frontend engineers, the candidate pool for React is a few orders or magnitude bigger

The trick is not to look for React developers, or Stimulus developers, but to look for frontend developers. Those who can competently write javascript/typescript, have a good understanding of browser apis, and are competent in css and html.

[JeremyNT]

Agreed, Stimulus is so simple that there's almost no prerequisite other beyond a basic understanding of HTML and javascript, both things that any "React developer" and even most "backend" web developers should already have.

Maybe I'm biased but I feel like rails + stimulus makes it incredibly easy for anybody with any kind of programming background to grok the entire project, and maybe you can reconsider even even having dedicated "frontend developers" at all. I know that specialization is a thing, but it's just so easy to be a "full stack" developer on such an app that I think almost anybody could pick it up.