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by techscruggs 547 days ago
A bit off topic, but whenever Rails and templating get brought up, I have to plug my absolute favorite project out there: Phlex https://beta.phlex.fun/. It's like ViewComponents, but swap out the ERB for pure Ruby. It has been a joy to develop with.

With the addition of Phlex::Kit, it has made building out a component library pretty easy too. RubyUI https://github.com/ruby-ui/ruby_ui does a great job of showing off how to do this.
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pmontra 547 days ago
Those kind of things used to be a lose lose proposition back at the time of haml (?) and all the yaml like templating languages. That was more than 10 years ago. The reason was that any designer that could actually do html was able to write an erb page, maybe except loops and logic, but they could understand them if a developer added them into the page later. On the other side with one of those languages, and more with phlex, only a developer could write the views so we were back to the 90s with photoshop layouts.

Furthermore your can't copy and paste examples. Think about Bootstrap components. You have to really write everything from scratch.

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techscruggs 547 days ago
https://www.phlexing.fun/ We have this for that. :)
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pkphilip 546 days ago
Agreed. The whole idea of writing html from scratch using special tags in the code makes no sense to me. It basically destroys the separation between code and design/templates.
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petepete 547 days ago
Funnily enough I write most of my view components without a template these days, unless there's a load of markup.

I keep meaning to take a look at Phlex.

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