Modern Front-End Development for Rails

Let’s Build an App

Before we start talking about front-end structure, we need to have an app to attach all that front-end structure to. I’ve created a sample website for a fictional music festival called North By, where multiple bands will perform at various concerts during the event. This app contains a schedule of all the concerts and venues. There isn’t much to this app. I used Rails scaffolding for a minimal amount of administration, but it’s just a structure that lets us get at the two pages we’ll be managing in this book: the schedule page and the concert display page.

The schedule page shows all the concerts, acts, and times for the entire festival. We’ll be adding features to this for inline editing, date filters, and search. We’ll ...