React on Rails vs Spring MVC: What are the differences?

What is React on Rails? Integration of React + Webpack + Rails using rails/webpacker to build Universal (Isomorphic) Apps (aka Server Rendering). Project Objective: To provide an opinionated and optimal framework for integrating Ruby on Rails with React via the Webpacker gem React on Rails integrates Facebook's React front-end framework with Rails. React v0.14.x and greater is supported, with server rendering. Redux and React-Router are supported as well, also with server rendering, using execJS..

What is Spring MVC? A Java framework which is used to build web applications. A Java framework that follows the Model-View-Controller design pattern and provides an elegant solution to use MVC in spring framework by the help of DispatcherServlet.

React on Rails and Spring MVC can be primarily classified as "Frameworks (Full Stack)" tools.

Some of the features offered by React on Rails are:

• server-side rendering
• turbolinks compatibility
• redux support

On the other hand, Spring MVC provides the following key features:

• Clear separation of roles
• Customizable binding and validation
• Adaptability

React on Rails and Spring MVC are both open source tools. It seems that Spring MVC with 30.6K GitHub stars and 19.6K forks on GitHub has more adoption than React on Rails with 4.32K GitHub stars and 542 GitHub forks.