MOVING ON FROM REACT, A YEAR LATER

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

A year after abandoning React, Scholarly maintains a server-rendered stack (Rails, Stimulus, and MySQL) supplemented by Turbo and ActionCable for interactivity. This approach prioritizes server-side logic, resulting in faster page load times (86ms p50 and 350ms p75) and fewer testing complexities compared to client-heavy architectures. JavaScript is actually viewed as a liability during development, so its usage is heavily reduced, if used at all.