A Year After Ditching React: Scholarly's Server-Side Rendering Success

Scholarly, a rapidly growing company, has maintained a remarkably simple tech stack: Rails, Stimulus, and MySQL, supplemented by Turbo and ActionCable for enhanced interactivity. Their experience after a year of abandoning React demonstrates that this server-side rendering approach significantly improves testing efficiency, application speed, and developer productivity. Compared to complex JS frontends, this lightweight approach reduces code maintenance costs, minimizes risks, and enables the team to deliver value faster, focusing on core business goals.