alt Hacker NewsRails can be API only and use any frontend you want.
Hotwire is the default and they develop it because DHH wants to, but they're not putting up any barriers to you using whatever you want.
Also, DHH doesn't seem to care about how big it is. His stated goal is for it to forever be a framework that's usable by a single dev.
Yeah but I wish in an alternate reality DHH chose a different route. If you go API only then you lose half of what makes rails great. It would be sick if you could render React/Vue/Svelte easily in your haml views and not have to have a js repo then figure out jwts and auth.
Dunno I loved rails, built monoliths, built api only, but when I tried sprinkling a bit of react in my views (say you only need a little bit of interaction, or want to use a react date picker) then theres all these sharp edges.
The reason I want it to be bigger is that user base helps the single dev, with help resources, up to date gems, and jobs.