8 ms·
Funny he mentioned Chris McCord as the originator of this technique with Liveview. The reality however predates that with Sync in Rails that you guessed it... w
by xutopia 1mo ago
Funny he mentioned Chris McCord as the originator of this technique with Liveview. The reality however predates that with Sync in Rails that you guessed it... was also Chris McCord's doing. Rails at the time didn't have the capacity to handle it so it was just a tech demo then and a big reason why Chris McCord moved to Phoenix. He was once a prolific Rails developer. That guy is helping the web move forward.
- ricardobeat 1mo agoWe were also doing this at Booking.com many years earlier, using morphdom and custom templating libraries. I think I wrote the first version in 2014-2015.
- ilumanty 1mo agoWhy did you stop doing this? What was the successor?
- xutopia 1mo agoToday's Rails has https://hotwired.dev https://hotwired.dev and it's built-in. I've used it on quite complex UIs and for the life of me I don't believe React would be so popular in new projects if people knew how good this was.
- ricardobeat 1mo agoThere were some hard problems related to legacy systems that made it hard to provide the best possible DX; eventually the influx of React devs was too strong to hold - adoption started in 2020 IIRC.
- noopydoopy 1mo agoWas predated by Microsoft with web forms.