Phlex Alternatives

phlex reviews and mentions

• RubyUI (Former PhlexUI): Ruby Gem for RubyUI Components
  7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Apr 2025

  There is an experimental feature that allows you to use ERB templates like ViewComponent. https://github.com/phlex-ruby/phlex/pull/867

• Django and Postgres for the Busy Rails Developer
  10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Dec 2024

  A bit off topic, but whenever Rails and templating get brought up, I have to plug my absolute favorite project out there: [Phlex](https://beta.phlex.fun/). It's like ViewComponents, but swap out the ERB for pure Ruby. It has been a joy to develop with.

  With the addition of Phlex::Kit, it has made building out a component library pretty easy too. [RubyUI](https://github.com/ruby-ui/ruby_ui) does a great job of showing off how to do this.

• Do React ao Hotwire - Parte II - [PT-BR]
  5 projects | dev.to | 16 Jun 2024
• From React to Hotwire - Part II - [EN]
  5 projects | dev.to | 16 Jun 2024

  As an alternative to ViewComponent, I found Phlex. It comes with the boldness of creating components using only Ruby code. This is the kind of boldness that scares. I was scared when I first saw React put HTML, JS, and CSS (StyledComponents) inside a component. I was scared to see Tailwind create classes for each CSS property and have HTML created with dozens of classes in an element. Letting go of this "prejudice" and testing Phlex was important here. But the decisive factor was following the creator of Phlex, Joel Drapper, on social media and realizing how motivated he is.

• Phlex: Fast, object-oriented view framework for Ruby
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Feb 2024
• RailsWorld 2023: Hotwire Edition
  3 projects | dev.to | 8 Oct 2023

  The community was a delight! I can't even count how many people I connected with, and it was just great to meet people whom I had previously only interacted with online. Also got to meet a lot of those people who significantly contribute to the Rails ecosystem. Everyone I said hi to was more than willing to spare time and nerd out and share experiences. I was also thrilled to connect with Philip, who shares my enthusiasm for Phlex. He provided me with some exciting ideas for creating an even more crazy yet cohesive form object with Phlex.

• Anyone tried Django? How does it compare to RoR?
  3 projects | /r/rails | 24 Jun 2023

  Why use ActiveAdmin or RailsAdmin: Brick is not nearly as configurable -- at least yet! With Brick you can drop in your own model / controller / view template and it will use it, but on its own you can not change theming / use it to do templating tricks / etc. Currently working hard to arrive upon a straightforward and logical approach so that all of this will be possible. Looking into Arbre (used by ActiveAdmin) and Phlex for inspiration.

• Phlex is the ruby way to build your views
  2 projects | dev.to | 8 Jun 2023

  Phlex is an incredibly refreshing gem created by Joel Drapper. It introduces a remarkable way to build views in pure Ruby, as exemplified below:

• Any component based UI system for Rails?
  4 projects | /r/rails | 3 Jun 2023
• I built a Rails app using 100% Phlex components and 0% Erb
  2 projects | /r/rails | 18 Apr 2023

  A few months ago I came across https://www.phlex.fun and thought it was a nifty little library that could be useful for creating components. Since then I've been playing around with it in Rails, using it more seriously, and finally took it to a point where I built a Rails application with 100% Phlex components and 0% Erb. The other crazy thing is I figured out how to inline the Phlex view components into a controller, so prototyping Rails apps feels vaguely familiar to prototyping one in Sinatra.

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