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Building Robust APIs with Ruby on Rails: A Glimpse into Modern Web Development (psmy.medium.com)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I like RoR but "Ruby on Rails" and "modern" in the same sentence seems kind of funny.

But then again, "modern" is subjective in itself and most of the websites I see these days (even built and maintained by large companies) seem pretty ancient.

No semantic HTML, still using divs everywhere, no accessibility, all these useless third-party dependencies and lockins vs the new APIs being introduced natively in the browser every day, ajax, jquery instead of using the web platform, hell-- most web developers don't even know what a dialog element is.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I've never actually heard of most of that. I've never heard of semantic HTML and I don't know what a dialog element is.

I think a part of the problem is there are a lot of people doing web development that never actually learned it. I'm a backend developer who occasionally has to do web development and I never learned web dev. All my training was with databases and serverside code and all my coworkers are the same.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As someone who has worked with RoR in the last year, they've come a LONG way in the last three years.

Take a look at Turbo/Hotwire and other new implementations in RoR. They eliminate like 90% of the necessary Javascript and the libraries are reliable which is nice. A guarantee not always found in the npm ecosystem.

Plus they did create a lot of web development ideas/concepts that were later integrated into the "modern" approach of web development.

I will say though that article is sparse and not informative of modern Rails.

Here is a better article: https://www.monterail.com/blog/why-ruby-on-rails-development

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ruby on Rails

modern

Lol