The creator of Rails on JavaScript FE vs. Classic Server-side Rendering

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Where should your logic live? Frontend, backend, somewhere out in space?? David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Ruby on Rails, talks about what worked for him when you have a small team (and what might work for you). He also tells us a little about Hotwire. Watch the video to find out!
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  • @dencam
    @dencam10 ай бұрын

    Thank you, Please give us a longer video on Ruby on Rails Documentary, like the one you did on Vue, Elixir, React.

  • @andyhall7032

    @andyhall7032

    10 ай бұрын

    Yeah there should be one from around 2007 I think.

  • @br3nto

    @br3nto

    10 ай бұрын

    Ruby is so good!

  • @Honeypotio

    @Honeypotio

    10 ай бұрын

    😏

  • @dencam

    @dencam

    10 ай бұрын

    @@Honeypotio due to public demand 😀

  • @pierreyves.lebrun

    @pierreyves.lebrun

    8 ай бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/gJV5qZd9qpreqrA.htmlsi=9lJx12kFe8zsV7Lx

  • @lagcisco
    @lagcisco10 ай бұрын

    We need the full conversation, please. So much practical insights

  • @stachowi
    @stachowi10 ай бұрын

    As a web dev for 20+ years, couldn't agree more with him.

  • @siyaram2855
    @siyaram28559 ай бұрын

    Dear Honeypot team, You are now free of your sin of making React documentary. P.S. Please make a documentary on DHH and Hotwire. This man deserve much more attention than those react lunatics. He has done more good to startups (and webdev in general) than a boatload of VCs.

  • @spacegauch0
    @spacegauch010 ай бұрын

    SSR with your framework of choise + HTMX seems to be a nice solution these days.

  • @ivan.jeremic

    @ivan.jeremic

    5 сағат бұрын

    if your iq is under 90 and not able to grasp React.js yes.

  • @abdurrahmanhalis
    @abdurrahmanhalis10 ай бұрын

    Since you've come to the client side vs server side arena, it's time to expect some Svelte content :)

  • @RodolphoArrudanogoogle
    @RodolphoArrudanogoogle9 ай бұрын

    Cool. Thanks. That's all I wanted to listen.

  • @vlahunter
    @vlahunter10 ай бұрын

    Is there gonna be a bigger interview like video with DHH ?? Or is that it ?

  • @Honeypotio

    @Honeypotio

    10 ай бұрын

    Stay tuned🤭

  • @vlahunter

    @vlahunter

    10 ай бұрын

    @@Honeypotio of course!!!! haahahhahahahahah

  • @siyaram2855

    @siyaram2855

    9 ай бұрын

    Thank you from bottom of my heart.

  • @serhiicho
    @serhiicho7 ай бұрын

    Great advice

  • @emilz0r
    @emilz0r10 ай бұрын

    What if my favorite programming language is js/ts?

  • @br3nto
    @br3nto10 ай бұрын

    2:12 when using SSR techniques, I honest don’t know how you would separate front end development from backend development. They are fundamentally tied together. I don’t know why you would want to do that either. Maybe there should be prototyper developers and finisher developers, both full stack, but one gets things implemented and working, the other polishes and cleans and improves the prototype. But I’ve never understood the frontend/backend separation.

  • @emilz0r

    @emilz0r

    10 ай бұрын

    The way you would it until recently in next was that you made your backend logic in whatever language and exposed as json api endpoints and then use next for fetching initial data from those apis and render the initial html server side, but basically just writing front end code in next that happen to also run on the server (for the initial fetch and render)

  • @emilz0r

    @emilz0r

    10 ай бұрын

    As for the "why", you might have alot of backend logic and alot of frontend logic which are different ways of thinking about an application and you might want experts in each field only focusing on their area without to much need for syncing development other that planning the json interface between the two

  • @br3nto

    @br3nto

    10 ай бұрын

    @@emilz0r ah yeah, that’s another great point! Many apps are written that way. But API driven sites have the same issues as what I’m talking about. I guess there are three scenarios here: 1) the API and UI are owned by the same team. 2) The API is owned by a different team in the same company. 3) the API is owned by a team in a different company. For 1, it would be super slow to make changes with separate frontend and backend development. For 2 and 3, the UI would never talk directly to those APIs, there would be a backend that consumes the other teams APIs first, which manipulates and/or combines with additional data before presenting in the UI layer. Because the data driving the site and the UI to present that data are fundamentally tied together, development will always be quicker if the backend driving the UI and the UI are developed in unison. So it should be done by the same developer and not different developers with different skill sets. I don’t see how it can be effective to only have front end devs and only have backend devs. Especially when in the same organisation. It would be super slow to make changes for a team that separates backend development from frontend development. It’s always better to have have devs working on both. If you want to talk about division of focus due to complexity in the code, different teams of devs could focus on certain parts on the app. Eg one team focuses on a particular tool or module of a site, while another team focuses on the platform aspect of a site, like authentication and authorisation and how each feature and new features can hook into that platform seamlessly. Also, yeah you may have a very complex function in the backend, but that functionality would be handled by an expert team, the Integration of that into the app would be done by devs of the site, they would develop the connections to the complex functionality within the backend, and also build the front end. Effectively, the complex app would have an API of some sorts, but it’s the backend code that wraps that API, but the UI should be built by the same people that manage the backend wrapper around the API to the complex functionality.

  • @sleekism

    @sleekism

    10 ай бұрын

    @@br3nto is the efficiency argument based on data? It seems to make sense but have you experienced both paradigms in a working environment?

  • @br3nto

    @br3nto

    10 ай бұрын

    @@sleekism no data. I’ve only been on the end of full stack… so I honestly don’t know how front end and back end development can be separated how communication and coordination of work can be done efficiently and effectively in a way that doesn’t just add time in comparison. When you develop the backend and front end together, nothing needs to be coordinated because you just do it together. Happy to hear others insights into how it works.

  • @tru2thastyle
    @tru2thastyle9 ай бұрын

    I agree with David.

  • @ranahamza8239
    @ranahamza82398 ай бұрын

    I love this man, The DHH ❤

  • @ivan.jeremic
    @ivan.jeremic5 сағат бұрын

    What he is missing is that using JavaScript does not mean you need to do all the work on the client, there is a thing called JavaScript on the server he might not have heard of it.

  • @jksmithiii
    @jksmithiii4 ай бұрын

    Hell yes, server side rules.

  • @Frexuz
    @Frexuz8 ай бұрын

    Why is he sitting in a door way?! 😆

  • @hibosco
    @hibosco9 ай бұрын

    Rudy on Rails

  • @rickdg
    @rickdg10 ай бұрын

    I too enjoy sending at least five network requests to filter a list through a search box.

  • @emilz0r

    @emilz0r

    10 ай бұрын

    I enjoy more filtering a list by refreshing the entire page for each click and send the user to the top of the page and make them find the list filtered further down themselves

  • @rickdg

    @rickdg

    10 ай бұрын

    @@emilz0r This is a bit tong-in-cheek as we know that for local interactions SSR folk still use JavaScript. David is just making making a line on the sand to stand on one side.

  • @emilz0r

    @emilz0r

    10 ай бұрын

    @@rickdg oh, I see now. You were promoting not doing everything on the server because you don't need to involve the server in everything, while I though you were doing the opposite because using js (for sending Ajax requests) are bad and you just wanted to drop js altogether

  • @superfoo
    @superfoo10 ай бұрын

    Serverside applications in my experiences tend to get less snappy, less userfriendly cause they just too far from the input and events in the browser. Also Backend Devs tend to Fokus on what's the easiest for the architecture they've built and not what makes most sense and value for the user. There is even more to say I guess. Will create a talk about it maybe

  • @emilz0r

    @emilz0r

    10 ай бұрын

    I agree for applications, but most web pages are just pretty content with little user interaction other than links, so for those solutions it would make sense to make everything backend

  • @superfoo

    @superfoo

    10 ай бұрын

    @@emilz0r yes that's true as well. If it's a website I pre render statically. Done. I usually differ between apps and websites

  • @benc9765
    @benc976510 ай бұрын

    He's absolute marmite but the guy speaks a lot of sense

  • @gradientO

    @gradientO

    10 ай бұрын

    He's a mermaid?

  • @chris.dillon

    @chris.dillon

    10 ай бұрын

    @@gradientO mermaid on toast

  • @HartleySan
    @HartleySan10 ай бұрын

    Always preferred Laravel over Rails, but I do appreciate DHH's sentiment here, and I agree that the pendulum has swung too far towards FE everything these days. That said, some FE code is not a bad thing (although I'm not a fan of how Hotwire does it).

  • @m1dway
    @m1dway10 ай бұрын

    There are values in both. JS can be used to reduce network roundtrip, UX and SSR is great for speed rendering and better at security management. So.. SSR framework FTW.

  • @redfordkobayashi6936

    @redfordkobayashi6936

    6 ай бұрын

    How does JS reduce network roundtrip?

  • @jmoz
    @jmoz5 ай бұрын

    Backend vs frontend is also a battle of millennials vs zoomers

  • @dominuskelvin
    @dominuskelvin10 ай бұрын

    Ah one of of my favorite people in the world

  • @gradientO
    @gradientO10 ай бұрын

    I've heard of this guy before 🤔

  • @mariobroselli3642
    @mariobroselli36422 ай бұрын

    I think like you, why use Javascript for frontend that has such a complicated syntax

  • @blessedonekobo
    @blessedonekobo10 ай бұрын

    HTML is great until you need a non-web client like a mobile app

  • @mikehurtado4772
    @mikehurtado47723 ай бұрын

    Palabras de un NO PROGRAMADOR

  • @DavidDLee
    @DavidDLee8 күн бұрын

    Notice that you did not give really any justification or pros/cons. As is, pretty useless video.

  • @marusdod3685
    @marusdod368510 ай бұрын

    meh. im just gonna stick with Next.Js

  • @nanonorthlabs3375
    @nanonorthlabs337510 ай бұрын

    Man there is literally nothing more trash than Ruby on Rails. It’s like the guy made it for himself, the adoption is weak, and nobody likes the syntax

  • @MarcoDamaceno

    @MarcoDamaceno

    10 ай бұрын

    Nobody? Not me included.

  • @dencam

    @dencam

    10 ай бұрын

    I love Rails

  • @dencam

    @dencam

    10 ай бұрын

    I love Rails

  • @doubleandy

    @doubleandy

    10 ай бұрын

    What don't you like about the syntax?

  • @dencam

    @dencam

    10 ай бұрын

    @@doubleandy what do you hate about Ruby? It pays my bills, that is why I love it

  • @tbeseda
    @tbeseda10 ай бұрын

    Ugh this guy. Not a great look Honeypot. Rails is fine, Ruby is fine, and the debate about SSR is great. But not from DHH.

  • @nafcho1

    @nafcho1

    10 ай бұрын

    Why?

  • @consumedata4544

    @consumedata4544

    10 ай бұрын

    @@nafcho1​​⁠because he doesn’t allow political debates to take place at his company. This is apparently “evil” in the eyes of politically deranged Americans, even though it’s literally considered polite in every other part of the world.

  • @posguy13

    @posguy13

    9 ай бұрын

    @@consumedata4544yeah, imagine wanting the people who you pay to work actually produce something, rather than engaging in endless political debates that never change anyone’s minds! 🤯

  • @chrisrobbo

    @chrisrobbo

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@@consumedata4544 who wants to debate politcs haha. I wouldn't want to do that in or out of the workplace, but especially not in the workplace

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