Stimulus

What is Stimulus?

Stimulus is a JavaScript framework with modest ambitions. It doesn't seek to take over your entire front-end—in fact, it's not concerned with rendering HTML at all.

Stimulus is a tool in the UI Components category of a tech stack.

Stimulus Pros & Cons

Pros of Stimulus

✓No Javascript on Backend
✓Simple and easy to start with
✓Balance between Front End and BackEnd
✓Easy way to add functionality to rails views

Cons of Stimulus

✗Steep learning curve

Stimulus Integrations

JavaScript, Strada are some of the popular tools that integrate with Stimulus. Here's a list of all 2 tools that integrate with Stimulus.

JavaScript

Strada

Stimulus Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Stimulus?

jQuery

jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.

React

Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.

AngularJS

AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding.