A Ruby on Rails + React hybrid

I’ve joined Mejuri at a time when the stack was an weird mixture between Spree Commerce (an eCommerce platform made in Ruby on Rails) and React. At that point the stack wasn’t taking advantage of React as a frontend, since every navigation would require a full re-render.

The stack also suffered with high loads on the servers that limited each one to respond to serve to only a few hundred users each instance. We started thinking on alternatives on how to modernize the platform.

The React way

The idea of migrating the site to a SPA for a better user experience was presented to the team, and we started working. The Spree version was a bit old, but it already had a full API for the checkout and we thought that was a good place to start since the checkout had a limited functionality and could be isolated as a different process.

Offboarding

After one and a half years, and two Black Fridays to remember a new opportunity presented to work as a contractor at 2U. Besides being able to negotiate a better salary and commodities, the idea of working on a company which tailored tools for universities with a “no back row” slogan looked very promising for me, and decided to move on.

Referrals

Some team members kindly agreed on letting me show their references so they can provide further background or backup my story.

• Lucas Calviño - Frontend Team Leader
• Pablo García - Senior Backend Ruby on Rails Developer