🚀 Getting Started with React and Docker: A "Hello World" for Ruby Developers | LinkedIn

In recent years, many Ruby and Ruby on Rails projects have adopted React for their front-end needs. Whether you're building a modern single-page application (SPA) or just enhancing parts of your Rails views, learning React can open up a new world of interactivity and frontend control. This article is my first step into React, with a simple yet complete "Hello World" application — containerized using Docker. It sets the stage for building more complex, production-ready apps that can integrate smoothly with a Rails API backend. 🛠 The Stack React: UI Library for building components Node.js (Alpine): Lightweight base image Docker & Docker Compose: To isolate and run our app consistently No Create-React-App CLI involved: We manually set up and understand each part.