React Portals + Rails

Modern UI development within a monolith environment.

Purpose

To teach you how to leverage a modern frontend library to create seamless user experiences within a monolith environment using a traditional Rails setup.

Installation

Install ruby

rbenv install 2.6.4

Note: Not using rbenv? What are you doing?

Install bundler

gem install bundler 2.0.2

Install frontend deps

yarn

Note: Not using yarn? What are you doing?

Start PostgreSQL

pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres start

Create your db

bundle exec rails db:create

Migrate your db

bundle exec rails db:migrate

Running the application

bundle exec rails s

w00t! Visit your app at http://localhost:3000 🎉🎉🎉