Thinking about rewriting that app in something like Rails?

I had 5 different sites running on various JavaScript platforms - both front and back end. In March of 2024 I rewrote everything in Ruby on Rails.I wasn't planning on it,  I just followed the fun.

Seriously, how the f*** did I end up here?

That's what I said to myself when I tried to add a feature to my last site. I had to add a set of components, figure out which state store to use, debug the click events that weren't firing because of a bug in my UI framework, and then write the API endpoint for a serverless function in an entirely separate app that was a challenge to test properly.
I know I'm not alone and I'm guessing that if you've read this far, you might have found yourself in a similar situation.
There's just too much damned noise.
I fell in love with Vue 2, which was so very simple. Nuxt 2 was a joy. Vue 3 and Nuxt 3 are great improvements, but changed quite a few core concepts. Next is interesting, and Next 13 looks to be a great improvement leveraging concepts from ASP.NET in 2004. And Astro, so productive! I also love how Svelte doesn't need a runtime library, and SvelteKit makes things work like Nuxt and Next.
Sometimes I think about all of the time I spent exploring, learning, relearning, building, and rebuilding with these JavaScript frameworks and it makes me a little crazy. I should be shipping things and creating value for my customers, not learning Yet Another Framework!

A Rails Renaissance? Is That a Real Thing?

Seems to be! This Twitter post caught my eye a few months ago and made me remember the sheer velocity I enjoyed with Ruby on Rails, not to mention the Ruby language itself, which I truly loved.

I thought Rails was dead?

Nope. It's not talked about as much, but the community is still alive and as vibrant as ever. Many big sites still run on a Rails infrastructure, including GitHub, Instacart, Shopify, Airbnb, Kickstarter, Twitch, Hulu, and Zendesk.

This experience shocked me, in a good way.

I’m Rob Conery and I’ve been building software for over 25 years without a CS degree. I’ve created applications for huge corporations including Ameritech and Southwest Bell. I’ve contracted to Visa, Google, Starbucks and PayPal - creating their very first developer portal back in 2005. I wrote an open source e-commerce site for Microsoft that was demoed on stage by Steve Ballmer at Tech Ed, Microsoft’s biggest developer conference (now //Build). 


I've been running my site with JavaScript frameworks for the last 7 years but in March of 2024 I started playing with Rails one late Friday night and three weeks later I rewrote everything.


That, was fun. And I want to share it with you.

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