Rails, Angular, Postgres, and Bootstrap

Next: Everything Else

At this point, our work is done! We’ve created a highly complex page with a clean design, one that performs well and gives a great user experience. It took expertise in Bootstrap, Angular, and Postgres to make it happen. Take a moment to click around Shine and reflect on what we’ve done.

Although we’ve done a lot of setup and installed a lot of software, we’ve hardly written any code and every layer of our application is clean. We didn’t write any CSS, and we’ve only written the JavaScript specific to the problems we’re solving: no hacky data- attributes or code tightly coupled to the DOM. Our Rails controller code looks like a regular Rails controller, even though it’s backed by a powerful, self-updating materialized ...