I watched Marco Roth's talk at Rails World 2026, and it left me excited about where the Rails view layer is headed. Marco has spent the last couple of years building Herb, an HTML-aware ERB parser that is on its way into Rails 8.2 core, and at Rails World he showed what he is building on top of it: A project called ReActionView.
I watched Marco Roth's talk at Rails World 2026, and it left me excited about where the Rails view layer is headed.
Marco has spent the last couple of years building Herb, an HTML-aware ERB parser that is on its way into Rails 8.2 core, and at Rails World he showed what he is building on top of it: A project called...
ReActionView adds real reactivity to your existing.html.erb templates, no Hotwire, no Stimulus, no JavaScript you have to write yourself.
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I watched Marco Roth's talk at Rails World 2026, and it left me excited about where the Rails view layer is headed. Marco has spent the last couple of years building Herb, an HTML-aware ERB parser that is on its way into Rails 8.2 core, and at Rails World he showed what he is building on top of it: A project called ReActionView. ReActionView adds real reactivity to your existing.html.erb templates, no Hotwire, no Stimulus, no JavaScript you have to write yourself.
Originally appeared on The Rails Tech Debt Blog.
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