Fully Stimulated Rails App

Can you deliver that modern frontend feel without modern frontend complexity? Using Turbolinks and Basecamp’s new Stimulus JS framework you can! We’ll cover why it might be right for you, how to get started, and use it to deliver that fancy, modern feel using otherwise stock Rails.

This talk will show that small teams can deliver high-fidelity frontends with Rails. It could also help larger teams decided whether they need to follow the mainstream and adopt a framework like React or Vue.

I’ve been a Rails developer for over 10 years and recently became the CTO of a small business with a small developer team. I have the role of lead developer and had to design how we would rewrite our frontend using Stimulus, then teach our team how to implement it. We’ve written almost 2k lines of Stimulus controller code.