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Shave the yak of React with Rails
You were minutes away from completing the task—5 hours ago! What happened?
If you’re reading this page, you’re probably trying to integrate Ruby on Rails with React and Webpack, or getting your CI working again after updating Babel, Node, and Webpack. It’s tough. It takes yak shaving to a whole new level.
ShakaCode can help!
We've been helping companies implement this tech stack since 2014, saving time and money by sharing our expertise, recipes, and software to optimize Ruby on Rails sites using React. Ensuring an enhanced end-user experience AND a great developer experience, let ShakaCode handle your React on Rails setup while you focus on your application.
What is yak shaving?
Any seemingly pointless activity which is actually necessary to solve a problem which solves a problem which, several levels of recursion later, solves the real problem you're working on.
“yak shaving” — Urban Dictionary
Why use React on Rails Pro?
Personalized support for your project's usage of the gems. Including React on Rails, ShakaPacker, Cypress-On-Rails, and React-Rails
Help with upgrading from rails/webpacker to shakapacker
Improve your front-end performance which improves your Google Lighthouse score
Reduce Heroku and other infrastructure costs with optimized configurations based on React with Rails best practices
Boost your website performance and SEO with react-router, server-side rendering (SSR), and code-splitting
Use cutting-edge technologies such as dynamic React code splitting with SSR using loadable-components
Do it right with a proper Node.js renderer for SSR instead of embedded JavaScript in Ruby
Save time keeping your React, Webpack, and other Node packages and configurations current
Leverage type-safety via ReScript or TypeScript in your front-end code
Streamline configuration of CircleCI for your React and Rails app
Simplify integration testing with shakacode/cypress-on-rails
Enhance the developer experience with React hot-reloading
Have a private Slack channel to ask Rails, React, React on Rails, Webpack, reactjs/react-rails, and rails/webpacker experts at any time
React on Rails Pro Subscription
A commercial license for React on Rails Pro, configuration examples, and free support via Slack, Zoom, GitHub code reviews, etc., with a maximum 24-hour response time for any developer question regarding React on Rails, React on Rails Pro, react-rails, and Shakapacker.