Frontend Meet Backend Get Along
summary
Claim: front end and back end can thrive together by actually using Bower for JS, keeping a plain bower.json in project root, adding vendor/assets/components to Rails' asset paths, removing the jQuery gem to avoid conflicts, and using emblem-rails only for precompilation. The demo rewrites Dashing in Ember during a hackathon and works. Deployment uses a Node then Ruby Heroku multi-buildpack with package.json postinstall running bower install and Rails precompile, plus scripts and quiet_assets to tame logs.
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