## It's hard to predict... _Previously on Locally Sourced: Well, we’ve been talking about the history of Rails and JavaScript: [part 1](/blog/2020/06/rails-and-javascript-part-1/), [part 2](/blog/2020/07/rails-and-javascript-part-2/), and [part 3](/blog/2020/07/rails-and-javascript-part-three/), and we’ve finally caught up to the present time, so I guess it’s time to talk about the future. Also, my [Rails and...

## The Webpackening _Previously on Locally Sourced: Rails came out and let [people do Ajax](/blog/2020/06/rails-and-javascript-part-1/), when Ajax was a thing. Then Ajax was less of a thing and Rails let people [write CoffeeScript, and use Sprockets](/blog/2020/07/rails-and-javascript-part-2/). Also, I wrote a book on [Modern Front-End Programming with Rails](https://pragprog.com/titles/nrclient/modern-front-end-development-for-rails/), which is relevant...

## UJS, CoffeeScript and Sprockets, oh my. _Previously on Locally Sourced: I wrote about the early years of [Rails and JavaScript](/blog/2020/06/rails-and-javascript-part-1/). Which made it to [Ruby Weekly](http://rubyweekly.com). Also, my [Rails and JavaScript book](https://pragprog.com/titles/nrclient/modern-front-end-development-for-rails/) is still on sale._ _A quick program note: If you’ve liked the [Entropy Essays](/tags/entropy/), I’m doing a...

## You got your Rails in my JavaScript... _Previously on Locally Sourced: Well, in 2005 I came across a cool web framework called Ruby on Rails. More recently, I wrote a book about integrating Rails and front-end tools. If you want, you could [buy it](https://pragprog.com/titles/nrclient/modern-front-end-development-for-rails/). Today, I thought I’d go...