cs-what VS view_component

They say that if you try it you wont go back. But we know a lot of people who got to a certain place in a project and wished they could. But we might never know - because we have our own stubborn ways of doing things - and we're sticking to them! ;)

I've been working on a new CSS framework that you might like: https://github.com/perpetual-education/cs-what

I still think that Bootstrap and Tailwind are a bit backward. May as well go all in and use CS-what. I'd personally never sign on to a project that forced me to use them but I'm spoiled. My job is to teach how to write great HTML and CSS. But that doesn't mean that utility/class frameworks don't have value to other organizations. Their goal is to make it easier and more maintainable, so - if you learn CSS well, then you should we able to be productive in a framework right away. Any CSS lover has at some time created their own little framework (or many) along these lines. And there's no silver bullet. But the problem with that is - then the other team members will have to learn your unique angle on CSS.

After reading this thread, I created a new CSS framework that will help everyone skip learning CSS. https://github.com/perpetual-education/cs-what/blob/main/README.md

When searching for examples of table components built with the ViewComponent gem, I was surprised to find none. After some inquiries, I came across examples that worked like this:

View components offer two primary ways to interact with the component: passing arguments to the initializer and using slots:

For example, splitting out views into partials? Or the new ViewComponent feature that's becoming quite popular - https://viewcomponent.org/

I used to do "pure ruby" approach to that -- but basically wound up realizing I was re-inventing github's view_component. Their design goals were similar enough to what I was trying to do, that it made more sense just to use that, rather than try to re-invent it myself.

ViewComponent

The linked one is my Rails implementation, written for ViewComponent. The official version uses Nunjucks.