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How to migrate a 5-year-old Rails+React app toward no-build?

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Audience asks how to get from a 5-year-old Rails application with React to the 'dreamy' no-build state Ryan described. Answer: measure client-side performance first with a Core Web Vitals RUM product (e.g. Cloudflare Web Analytics) — backend charts in Datadog/New Relic don't capture user-perceived performance. Once you have data, correlate slowness with commercial metrics (churn, conversion) to get buy-in, then take an iterative approach: rip out the worst or medium-hard wins first, build momentum from visible progress, and tackle the hardest refactors last. Ryan jokes there's no magic prompt.

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Instrument RUM/Core Web Vitals first, correlate to business metrics, then iteratively remove the slowest or highest-ROI pieces — no magic prompt exists.
question How to migrate a 5-year-old Rails+React app toward no-build?
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Specifically about migrating off React.
question How to migrate a 5-year-old Rails+React app toward no-build?
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Ryan recommends measurement, citing Cloudflare Web Analytics as one option.
question How to migrate a 5-year-old Rails+React app toward no-build?
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Asked during the Q&A after Ryan's talk.

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