You’ve seen Rails, React, Inertia, Tailwind, and shadcn individually. The real unlock is seeing them all together — how each piece does a specific job and how a user request actually flows through the whole stack from click to database and back.
In this lesson we’ll lay out all eight pieces of the stack in one picture (including the deploy layer), trace a single request through every layer, and explain why this specific combination is what I reach for on every new project.
- The complete stack: Rails, React, Inertia, Tailwind, shadcn, Postgres, GitHub, Hatchbox, DigitalOcean
- What job each piece is doing and why it’s there
- How a click travels through the entire stack and back in under a second
- Why this specific combination beats the alternatives for what we’re building