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. (by shakacode)
Sinatra
Classy web-development dressed in a DSL (official / canonical repo) (by sinatra)
| react-on-rails | Sinatra | |
|---|---|---|
| 12 | 10 | |
| 5,154 | 12,308 | |
| 0.1% | 0.2% | |
| 8.7 | 7.0 | |
| 5 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
| Ruby | Ruby | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
react-on-rails
Posts with mentions or reviews of react-on-rails.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-04-22.
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Integrating Ruby on Rails with Modern SPAs
Compared to gems like React on Rails or Intertia Rails, the current gem is just an installer and does virtually nothing to modify or add features to React Router. This is a great advantage and ensures that frontend developers will feel right at home.
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Rewrite It in Rails
React plus Rails is my favorite modern combo. Development bliss.
https://github.com/shakacode/react_on_rails
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React + Ruby on Rails without any gems
One is to add a gem: react-rails or react_on_rails for example. But there is a way to have a simple integration without using these gems.
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Considering moving from NextJS to Rails
You should take a look at https://github.com/shakacode/react_on_rails. I created that repo back in 2015 and it's still going strong. Popmenu.com uses it and we've got 5,000 restaurant chains on the Rails monolith and huge traffic and transaction volume. Check out the html source of a popmenu site, like https://110grill.com. You'll see react-on-rails in the source.
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Spent the past week learning Stimulus and Hotwire - you don't need it, you can do the same thing with jQuery
It's me, Justin, the guy the started React on Rails and React on Rails Pro many years ago! I'll be following this thread!
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Best project setup for Rails+React with "remember me" feature
The problem is I have no idea how to implement the "remember me" feature in that gem without just making the tokens not refresh for a very long time (I think that would be a security concern). So then I looked more into react_on_rails to just use sessions with Devise as a normal rails app, but I don't know if I'll be able to deploy that on AWS because of the changes I have to do to the webpacker/webpack config to allow for a better folder structure. I've never done that so I don't know if there may be any issues.
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Frontend based access control?
I have a production level Ruby on Rails app that is slowly transitioning from pure Rails with JS sprinkles to a Rails backend and React frontend kind of situation using React on Rails.
- How to create a project with both .erb and react? Do I use webpack=react?
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Does anyone know a way to make a React with Rails application SEO friendly?
https://github.com/shakacode/react_on_rails - It was last updated 2 months ago & can do prerendering. I'm not sure why more people aren't suggesting this.
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React Frontend vs Hotwire
https://github.com/shakacode/react_on_rails use this instead. It's maintained and preferred nowadays
Sinatra
Posts with mentions or reviews of Sinatra.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-07.
- Sinatra 4.0
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How to Use Sinatra to Build a Ruby Application
Compared to Ruby on Rails, a full-stack web framework, Sinatra is a very lean micro-framework originally developed by Blake Mizerany to help Ruby developers build applications with "minimal effort".
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Making AJAX Applications Crawlable? How to build a simple web service on Google App Engine to produce HTML Snapshots?
a Sinatra app hosted on Heroku on the domain http://example.com
- I created a simple router inspired by Ruby's Sinatra. What do you guys think?
- Escaping all path info with Shellwords.escape in Sinatra
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How do I set up a Sinatra app under Apache with Passenger?
Let's say I have the simplest single-file Sinatra app. The hello world on their homepage will do. I want to run it under Apache with Phusion Passenger, AKA mod_rails.
- Learning Ruby:Rails:Routes:Controllers#beginner
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Does Anyone use Sinatra in Production?
Sinatra is fine as long as you have a small number of routes, because its router is O(n): https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/blob/ac5404dbd897a4b3c5b3921d2f89fecd3b540ed3/lib/sinatra/base.rb#L1008-L1010
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Hacktoberfest: 69 Beginner-Friendly Projects You Can Contribute To
https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra A classy web-development dressed in a DSL (official / canonical repo)
What are some alternatives?
When comparing react-on-rails and Sinatra you can also consider the following projects:
reactfire - Hooks, Context Providers, and Components that make it easy to interact with Firebase.
Hanami - A flexible framework for maintainable Ruby apps
react-children-utilities - Extended utils for ⚛️ React.Children data structure that adds recursive filter, map and more methods to iterate nested children.
Cuba - Rum based microframework for web development.
Ruby on Rails - Ruby on Rails