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Ruby

Posted by Ben Omondi
Ben Omondi
3,522 Points

What are the best auxiliary languages to study in order to produce beautiful RoR apps?

Many greetings peeps.

Hey guys Am curious to know what the industry is doing with producing real beautiful ruby applications.

What skills/tree house library shall I look at?

I will be glad if you chime in on a javascript framework that works smartly with RoR for frontend.

1 Answer

Eric Butler
Eric Butler
33,512 Points
Eric Butler
Eric Butler
33,512 Points

JavaScript is the auxiliary language to study. React is likely the JS framework to study. If you're going to use a JS framework for the front-end, your main 3 options are likely React, Angular and Vue (Ember and Backbone and others exist too, but aren't as "hot"). If you're going to pick React or Angular, you might only want to use RoR as an API back-end, and let the JS framework handle your front-end. Rails hasn't always worked great/smartly with JS frameworks, but they are working to change that. If you're only using RoR as a back-end, though, they'll likely work together fine.

Ben Omondi
Ben Omondi
3,522 Points

Thanks so much Eric. Seems React is a common one among Ruby devs . Looking to dive into this