react-rails VS react-ace

https://github.com/reactjs/react-rails here is the functionality and simplicity that I would be kind of looking for. The option for it to exist in Django ecosystem is not that outlandish and I wouldn’t be too ignorant of it having to make sense or not make sense to everyone :)

You can however use reactjs with rails, there is a gem for it https://github.com/reactjs/react-rails

The react-rails library is one of the most popular Ruby gems to integrate React with Rails. It provides generators for components, testing helpers, and view helpers to render JavaScript code inside the views.

I'd checkout https://github.com/reactjs/react-rails

I'm looking to implement ReactJS as the view of my Rails application with the gem react-rails.So far, I've only used the standard .erb to render my views in my RoR application and I am wondering some questions about how to do it with React.

I'm trying to use the Ace editor in my Ruby on Rails app, with majority of the view composed as React components. I'm using the react-rails gem and I'm not using flux at all.

What do you mean common HTML/CSS? Your React app needs access to front end assets that are on your Rails app? If that's the case, then easiest way would be to combine the repos and use something like [react-rails](https://github.com/reactjs/react-rails)

React Ace Editor

Im using react-ace and trying the readme example with java syntax. Works great. But I can't seem to set it to JSON.

I found this react-ace package, but I have to use npm to install it. I've been able to get bower components working with bower-rails gem but never got npm packages to work. Is there a way to use this just through the asset pipeline (through vendor)?

You can use https://ace.c9.io/ (or https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-ace if you are using react) to write the code.

This is a basic setup, for further modifications you can check the above provided link, you can generate the code interactively here