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Inertia feels like a great middle ground between the modern frontend experience and the traditional webapp experience. It's an awesome example of having the best of both worlds.

Exactly my thoughts. The biggest part of the re-write was using Inertia + React for the chat functionality but most of the other views are still normal Rails + Hotwire and still feels like a normal Rails app.

Mason Stallmo

@mstallmo.com

Gregory Brown [MOVED, SEE BIO]

If Inerita had existing 10 years ago and started off as the prominent way to build a React frontend I think collectively we could have saved ourselves a lot of headache and complexity in webdev 😅

@skillstopractice.com

What was the prior frontend setup? I am currently working on a project doing basically the opposite migtation (Vue + Rails API to Hotwire + Ruby components) ... but Inertia seems interesting to me as it strikes a middle ground.

@adrianvalenz.bsky.social

They were using React + Rails API endpoints for some chat functionality and normal Rails + Hotwire for the other views. I think Inertia strikes a great balance and can render Inertia components or normal Rails views from the controller so feels really familiar.

Adrian Valenz

28 Mar 2025

I've been curious about Inertia for a while already. What paradigm did you need to overcome before it started growing on you?

28 Mar 2025

How easy it is to render inertia components or regular Rails views in the controller helped win me over. That made everything feel a lot more cohesive and closer to a regular Rails app.

Chris Oliver

@excid3.com

Would you say you've got interia on using Inertia?

Bingo 😆

I really need to get my hands dirty with it. What sort of pet project would you recommend to get started?

inertia-rails.devServer-side setup | Inertia RailsDocumentation for Inertia.js Rails adapter

The inertia-rails docs are also great and got everything up and running pretty quick inertia-rails.dev/guide/server...

Zack Gilbert

@zackgilbert.com