FRONTEND CHOICES

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Argues that modern front ends work best when split into two apps—a Rails API and a separate JS build—demonstrates using Angular and Ember, and shows practical tooling: Sprockets + Bower integration, the Ember Rails API layout, and a Grunt-based workflow with Grunt + Karma + Jasmine for fast tests. Describes building an Angular UI for OpenProject and a large Ember CRM that exposes immature JS tooling, recommends prerendering (PhantomJS or crawl services) or progressive enhancement for SEO rather than client‑only rendering.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 1:21front end vs. frontend
3. 4:33Single page v traditional HTML
4. 12:09Room for Rails?
5. 18:16trzy three practical usage
6. 19:45gem install bower-rails

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