Overview:
BigBinary is a software consultancy company that has developed a base project for quickly setting up a Rails application. This project follows the opinions and style of BigBinary. The project provides a local development setup as well as the option to use Docker for development. It also includes several features and uses various tools and gems for improved development and testing processes.
Features:
- Tailwind CSS: The project uses Tailwind CSS for styling the application.
- Devise: Devise gem is used for user authentication and authorization.
- Honeybadger: Honeybadger is used for error tracking and monitoring.
- Slim: Slim is used as the templating language for cleaner syntax and better performance.
- ActiveAdmin: ActiveAdmin gem is used for generating an admin dashboard.
- Sidekiq: Sidekiq is used as a background processing framework.
- Mail Interceptor: Outgoing emails in non-production environments are intercepted using the gem
mail_interceptor. - SemaphoreCI: SemaphoreCI is used for continuous testing.
- PostgreSQL: PostgreSQL is used as the database for the application.
- Rack::Deflater: Content compression is enabled using Rack::Deflater.
- Rubocop: Ruby code is automatically formatted using Rubocop.
- Prettier: JavaScript and CSS code are automatically formatted using Prettier.
- Letter Opener: Letter Opener gem is used for email preview in development.
- Ruby on Rails
Ruby on Rails, often referred to as Rails, is an open-source web application framework written in Ruby. Known for its convention over configuration and don't repeat yourself (DRY) principles, Rails simplifies and accelerates the development of database-backed web applications.
- React
React is a widely used JavaScript library for building user interfaces and single-page applications. It follows a component-based architecture and uses a virtual DOM to efficiently update and render UI components
- SCSS
SCSS is a preprocessor scripting language that extends the capabilities of CSS by adding features such as variables, nesting, and mixins. It allows developers to write more efficient and maintainable CSS code, and helps to streamline the development process by reducing repetition and increasing reusability.
- Tailwind
Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework that provides pre-defined classes for building responsive and customizable user interfaces.
- Ant Design
Ant Design is a React UI library that provides a set of pre-designed components and design resources for building high-quality, responsive web applications.
- Eslint
ESLint is a linter for JavaScript that analyzes code to detect and report on potential problems and errors, as well as enforce consistent code style and best practices, helping developers to write cleaner, more maintainable code.
- Postcss
PostCSS is a popular open-source tool that enables web developers to transform CSS styles with JavaScript plugins. It allows for efficient processing of CSS styles, from applying vendor prefixes to improving browser compatibility, ultimately resulting in cleaner, faster, and more maintainable code.
- Webpack
Webpack is a popular open-source module bundler for JavaScript applications that bundles and optimizes the code and its dependencies for production-ready deployment. It can also be used to transform other types of assets such as CSS, images, and fonts.