Pure Ember.js or Rails+Ember.js?

3 points by chadwtaylor ↗ HN
We are going to implement our project with Ember; that's decided. But the burning question is should we do pure Ember.js or mix it up with Rails?

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So you'll need a middle layer no matter what (unless you go with like... CouchDB or something), but can I recommend you use something lighter weight than Rails?

Consider using something lighter weight, like Sinatra that you can task with just providing a RESTful API to the backend. Unless you're wanting to sometimes render pages (which you can do with sinatra) to send to slow clients, I really don't see much of a use case for the full weight of rails.

Rails is too heavy, especially when you're using a front-end framework