Middleman is a great mini framework for building front-end applications. It will give you compilation tools, asset pipeline and routing without all the hassle of working with a complicated stack or back-end.
Become a SubscriberMiddleman is awesome for building static sites, and heroku is awesome for hosting just about everything. The problem is, that the two do not really play nice together without the proper setup, and that setup is not well documented anywhere. We are going to create a vanilla middleman project and deploy it to heroku in a few easy steps.
Middleman and React are an incredibly simple and awesome stack. The alternative you will often see is with npm/browserify/gulp which I personally find to be more convoluted than ruby/gems. All I want to do is be able to separate and organize react components, be able to write with coffeescript and have them compile for production. These three requirements took me an hour or more to properly setup and configure with gulp/browserify but only a few minutes with middleman
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