React-Rails — Snake or Camel ?

🐍 vs. 🐪

Jack

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When working on React projects it’s standard convention to use camelCase and in Rails use snake_case. So, when using Rails as a backend for a React frontend project — do you use snake_case or camelCase?

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I have experimented with all sorts of ways of handling this frontend-backend communication. One option is to ignore the convention in the backend and create our model…

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Jack

Magician, Mathematician, and Software Engineer