[BowBun]

I do agree that Rails' asset stuff has been giant pain over the years and has not kept up well. On the other hand, some apps that adopted separate Rails APIs and a separate (for example, React) frontend have been fine. You're right though that their opinion here added more headaches that necessary!

[Lio]

I’d agree in that I never things like Coffeescript but I think that Rails’ frontend solution since 7.0 of Hotwire has been excellent.

Being able to sprinkle just enough JavaScript on server rended HTML works really well. That you can now use it iOS and Android apps too makes it a simpler alternative to React IMHO.

I still much prefer server rendering in a monolith than dealing with GraphQL, backend for frontend and the complexity of micro services and distributed transactions.

BTW Hotwire and Hotwire Native are also options for Django too.