Welcome to 2023 — we’re kicking off the year talking to Justin Searls about the state of web development and why he just might write a “You Might Not Need React” post. He’s been so productive using Turbo and Stimulus (and tailwind) in Rails 7 that we had to talk about the state of Rails development today and a bunch of other fun topics around building for the web in 2023.

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Featuring:

• Justin Searls – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• SO PRODUCTIVE in Rails 7
• Shaking my head big time at The Changelog #509
• What excites you about Ruby on Rails in 2022?
• The Changelog #509
• Ship It #44
• Debugging Ruby with VS Code

Searls says:

For liner notes purposes, @hsbt and @ko1 have indeed both contributed to ruby.debug but it was clearly Koichi’s baby.

Something missing or broken? interviews-521.md">PRs welcome!

Timestamps:

(00:00) - This week on The Changelog(01:04) - Sponsor: Sentry(01:45) - Start the show!(05:48) - Challenges running Test Double(12:34) - Are you close to the problem?(16:35) - That's why you're here today(27:01) - Sponsor: Square(27:54) - The React paradigm(31:51) - An allergy to HTML over the wire(35:00) - Multiple clients is what changes things(42:19) - Progression vs Regression(46:57) - Progress is a Helix(49:40) - Do we have a chasing cool issue?(57:56) - Is Ruby hidden in plain site?(1:01:15) - Rails and JavaScript(1:16:05) - Teasing something for the ++ members(1:18:10) - Closing out the show(1:19:50) - Outro