Single page apps are becoming more and more ubiquitous in today's market. While the role of the ruby backend has receded, there is still an important role to play for web servers.

I will discuss common problems introduced by a client-first approach to development. As well as provide some ways to leverage ruby to provide solutions to these problems. In addition, looking forward, I'll outline ways you can squeeze out some extra performance from your stack by backing your single page app with a ruby backend.