Pascal Lindelauf

Our Rails codebase has been going strong for over 10 years now, but we're looking to upgrade the UI of our admin pages. These are all served as HTML snippets as always advocated by the Rails team (especially DHH). On the client side we're still using JQuery as well as jQuery components for rendering more feature rich UI controls, like a select box with search functionality (Chosen) or a date picker (Zebra date picker).

Now, we're looking to redesign the front-end. That's a good time to move away from jQuery. But what are currently considered good feature rich UI controls to use in combination with the Rails approach of generating HTML (snippets) on the backend?

It seems Webawesome (previously Shoelace) is a good step in that direction, but I'd already be missing the search functionality in a select control.

Also, I'm wondering what the 37Signals guys are using for applications like Hey. If they have any UI components available for use by the community, that might be interesting as well.

Any recommendations?