Interesting that you went from React to Rails, usually people go the other direction. It's neat seeing the good 'ol server side frameworks being "rediscovered".
I'm not sure that's true. Time has went that direction, for sure, but I don't think historical backend web devs have migrated to react. Mostly front-end devs expanding their horizons and younger devs starting there.
> but I don't think historical backend web devs have migrated to react.
Really? Back in the day, myself and my peers weren't "backend web devs" we were just web devs. Stuff started shifting to the frontend and we all learned Backbone, Angular, React, etc because that's the way the industry went. I think a LOT of us migrated to React, maybe not completely, but who can call themselves a web developer these days without at least some experience with FE frameworks?
Guess it depends on your role yeah. I'm familiar with React etc but I only use it when required, it's all so clumsy, constantly changing, and their best new ideas have existed in the ruby/python/php communities for decades.
I still really limit my JS to just improving the client-side UI/UX.
