A retrospective on making the switch from React to StimulusJS at Scholarly

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Over the past year, Scholarly has made significant progress, including securing funding, achieving SOC 2 Type II compliance, expanding their team, and maintaining a simple technology stack with Ruby on Rails, Stimulus, and MySQL. The decision to move from React to a server-rendered approach has resulted in better testability, faster performance, and reduced complexity. Their focus on minimizing JavaScript use has led to more reliable and maintainable code. Scholarly remains committed to their current tech stack and confident in their approach moving forward.

Moving on from React, a Year Later

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