Building an Inertia app with Rails - Avo

Around the 10s, SPAs were everywhere: they promised to solve the increasingly challenging requirements for the front-end that SSR frameworks like Rails weren't designed to solve. The feeling in the air was that every new app needed to be an API-backed Single Page Application. The paradigm shift didn't come without a cost: building an application became much more difficult, the front-end became more complex, and some non-issues, like SEO, became a problem. However, there are some parts of our applications that might be highly interactive where using a framework like React or Vue is a good thing. But we would rather not throw everything that we love about Rails for a few parts of our apps: that's where Inertia comes to play: it allows us to have the benefits of an SPA without having to leave our beloved Rails monolith or building an API.