react-rails VS Stimulus

Compare react-rails vs Stimulus and see what are their differences.

react-rails

Integrate React.js with Rails views and controllers, the asset pipeline, or webpacker. (by reactjs)

Stimulus

A modest JavaScript framework for the HTML you already have (by hotwired)
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react-rails Stimulus
20 111
6,723 12,444
0.2% 0.4%
7.9 6.8
7 days ago 23 days ago
JavaScript TypeScript
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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react-rails

Posts with mentions or reviews of react-rails. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-30.

Stimulus

Posts with mentions or reviews of Stimulus. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-27.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing react-rails and Stimulus you can also consider the following projects:

react-on-rails - Integration of React + Webpack + Rails + rails/webpacker including server-side rendering of React, enabling a better developer experience and faster client performance.

turbo-rails - Use Turbo in your Ruby on Rails app

hotwire-livereload - Live reload gem for Hotwire Rails apps.

htmx - </> htmx - high power tools for HTML

inertia - Inertia.js lets you quickly build modern single-page React, Vue and Svelte apps using classic server-side routing and controllers.

hotwire-rails - Use Hotwire in your Ruby on Rails app

django-unicorn - The magical reactive component framework for Django ✨

docker-rails-react-starter - A basic docker-compose, Rails and React / Webpack starter kit

Alpine.js - A rugged, minimal framework for composing JavaScript behavior in your markup.

inertia-laravel - The Laravel adapter for Inertia.js.