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Curious about how to build apps for web and mobile in 2024? Join me as we delve into a real-world production story of building one. Together, we'll uncover the benefits and challenges of creating a web application with native layers. We'll also discuss push notifications, and app architecture that promotes easy feature releases. Finally, we'll look at the promises of Rails 8 to simplify the development process in the future.

Yaro will show his approach to creating Hotwire datatables covering common mistakes and best practices - unnessesary declarations, full page reload vs. frames vs. streams, fat vs. skinny stimulus controllers, bulk update via turbo streams, etc. He provide answers for common frontend questions - when to use ViewComponents vs Partials, when to use Helpers, when to abstract a TailwindCSS class, should I create my own component library, etc.

Rails apps can be a black box. Have you ever tried to fix a bug where you just can’t understand what’s going on? This talk will give you practical steps to improve the observability of your Rails app, taking the time to understand and fix defects from hours or days to minutes. Rails 8 will bring an exciting new feature: built-in structured logging. This talk will delve into the transformative impact of structured logging on fixing bugs and saving engineers time. Structured logging, as a cornerstone of observability, offers a powerful way to handle logs compared to traditional text-based logs. This session will guide you through the nuances of structured logging in Rails, demonstrating how it can be used to gain better insights into your application’s behavior. This talk will be a practical, technical deep dive into how to make structured logging work with an existing Rails app.

Rails is the best framework for building your startup. But what happens when the startup becomes a leading business? How do companies that have Rails at the heart of its stack manage growth? How do you maintain a growing application for 15 years in a constantly changing environment? In this presentation Cristian Planas, Senior Staff Engineers at Zendesk, will share with you his and his collegues' 10 years of experience in a company that has succeeded by keeping Rails in its core. He will guide you through the life of a Rails-centered organization, that scaled from zero to hundreds of millions of users.