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Benefits of using a JS Framework
I am starting a new project and trying to decide if I should use a Javascript framework (like vue.js or react) and create a Ruby on Rails API, or use Ruby on Rails to server-side render pages and ...
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How should Rails be set up with an SPA client like Aurelia?
Let's suppose I have a backend with API-only Rails. There is also a Javascript single-page application (Aurelia, but could be something else) talking to this API.
Should I keep these together, in the ...
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API oriented web app for both public and private consumptions in Ruby
In traditional Rail app, we need to deal with controller/model/action and has a view that generate HTML output. Now
There are many JS framework like backbone/react that allow us to code client side ...
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Incorporating web designer's into a rails app
I have a designer who has great knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript (Not jQuery or AJAX though).
He gives me his designs in those files and I have to incorporate it into my apps.
The site is not ...
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Sharing business logic between server-side and client-side of web application?
Quick question concerning shared code/logic in back and front ends of a web application.
I have a web application (Rails + heavy JS) that parses metadata from HTML pages fetched via a user supplied ...
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reading parameters and files on browser, looking how to execute on server
I have a site done in Rails, which uses javascript to load files and generate forms for the user to input certain information. Those files and parameters are then to be used in a fortran code on the ...
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Performing client-side OAuth authorized Twitter API calls versus server side, how much of a difference is there in terms of performance?
I'm working on a Twitter application in Ruby on Rails. One of the biggest arguments that I have with other people on the project is the method of calling the Twitter API. Before, everything was done ...
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easiest way for push notifications
I wanted to implement real time push notification to one of the apps written in RoR. I don't have any experience with nodejs, nowjs, express or socketio.
What would be the easiest way to implement ...
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Backbone.js, Rails and code duplication
I'm building a web app and I need a JS framework like Backbone.js to work with my backend provided by Rails that mostly return JSON objects after DB queries.
Searching on the web I've discovered ...
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Starting my first RoR project, what JS library is good to go with it?
I'm starting my first Ruby on Rails project as I've been excited about the language for quite a while now and I'm sick of writing PHP. I've gathered that rails is pretty much an automation framework ...
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