Modern Front-End Development for Rails

Managing State and Front-End Development

A lot of the decisions about program structure in web applications are about how to manage state, which is the data that controls the interactions between the user and the application. Managing state includes both the location of that data itself and the location of the logic that manipulates that state.

The Structure of Web Applications

One of the main questions we’ll be dealing with is how to structure your web application so as to best manage your state. The goal is to avoid having multiple sources of truth, both by avoiding duplicating data as well as avoiding writing the same logic on both the client and the server side. We also want to make the program as easy as possible to understand and change. ...