| > if you're looking to hire frontend engineers, the candidate pool for React is a few orders or magnitude bigger Two comments on this - I know it will not change your mind, but maybe other people will read this: 1. Of course, the candidate pool for React is bigger, I think Hotwired - in its current form was released in 2021 (November or December). So this expectation is kinda “Planning to fail” right? If you put this as a criteria of course you are going to choose React. Are you sure you are not already decided to use React and then found reasons for the decision. It is totally fine if you did as we are all doing this constantly (first deciding and then finding reasons or explanations for the decision) 2. I think if you have a React developer (so a person who should know JS and HTML) who cannot write Hotwire code, that is a big problem. Anyone with a good foundation of JS and HTML should be able to write Hotwire code (Stimulus + Turbo) Recommendation: Don't put in your job ad "Required skill: Hotwired". Just hire people who understand how the web works (browser + HTML ...) and they will be able to write Hotwire-compliant code. > it's getting harder and harder to find vanilla JS packages that you can wrap in Stimulus controllers for common tasks, compared to finding React packages I am not sure what packages are you trying to find. But I would suggest if you are trying to find an 1-on-1 corresponding React package to Stimulus package the way the UI and UX is designed is not for Hotwire. You should not choose Hotwire to replace React but keep the same page behaviour. You should think your UX web experience different - more back to basics with interactivity sprinkled around > Stimulus doesn't really offer a way to write unit tests for your controllers Again if you have an application like say Figma UI then probably you need unit tests. But if you think the UX to be Rails 7 + Hotwire, you will not write so much JS code that you need unit tests for it. Testing an end-to-end feature should be enough. Of course, this is just me talking about a product (yours) that I don't know what it is an I am making so many assumptions. |