RailsConf 2015 - Your Front End Framework is Overkill - Server Side Javascript w/ Rails

By, Jim Jones For dynamic apps, Rails has taken a backseat to client side frameworks such as AngularJS, Ember and Backbone. Learn how to use server side javascript effectively to greatly simplify your code base and reuse your view logic. We'll implement parallel apps with vanilla Rails js responses, AngularJS and Ember.js so that we can contrast the implementations and evaluate the tradeoffs.