[skinnymuch]

A few weeks ago because there were 2 HN comment sections shitting on NextJS endlessly, I decided to go back to Rails.

I have ported a chunk of my likely last full stack JS project over to Rails with AI vibe coding everything as a reference for me to redo it again with AI but not vibe coding.

Absolutely amazing work. About 40% of that NextJS app was vibe coded and the process of undoing the excessive and verbose code was depressing me.

The Ruby and Rails code is simple and understandable and a fraction of the lines of code.

Last sentence exactly. I am using IntertiaJS for some of the frontend and I finally don’t dislike JS any more. React is amazing when it’s only a view library.

[mylons]

are you dabbling at all in the “no build js” stuff that Rails 8 supports? i did it for that corporate project and their deploy time went from 30 minutes to 5 minutes. it’s also such a headache reliever but removing most of the confusing aspects of the JS ecosystem for me.