StimulusReflex
FrameworksWhat is StimulusReflex?
It is an exciting new way to build modern, reactive, real-time apps with Ruby on Rails. It eliminates the complexity imposed by full-stack frontend frameworks. And, it's fast. It works seamlessly with the Rails tooling you already know and love.
StimulusReflex is a tool in the Frameworks category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Server-rendered HTML, delivered in miliseconds over the wire via WebsocketsERB templates and partials, with first-class ViewComponent supportRussian doll caching and ActiveJobStimulusJS and TurbolinksBuilt with CableReady, our secret power-move
StimulusReflex Pros & Cons
Pros of StimulusReflex
- ✓Based on CableReady for dom diffing
- ✓Deklarative - no Javascript
- ✓Most simple extension of the MVC model
- ✓Reactive stateless frontends
Cons of StimulusReflex
- ✗Rails backend needed
StimulusReflex Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to StimulusReflex?
Node.js
Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
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.
Bootstrap
Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.
