From Node to Ruby on Rails

Re:From Node to Ruby on Rails by skohan on Thursday December 16, 2021 @12:58PM (#29581391)

By contrast, Node was a breath of fresh air for me. With Rails, you had to start with this already complex system and bend it to do what you want. With a greenfield node server, it only does what you tell it to and nothing more. No surprises.

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Re:From Node to Ruby on Rails by jaredcwhite on Thursday December 16, 2021 @01:21PM (#29581730)

Building a complex SaaS app or backoffice app on a "greenfield Node server" is a supreme exercise in frustration.

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Re:From Node to Ruby on Rails by skohan on Thursday December 16, 2021 @01:37PM (#29581974)

There's a tool for every job, but for most of my use-cases, I'd rather have a webserver which is just a webserver, and get my front-end elsewhere. But I'm sure there are places where Rails is a great fit in the right hands.

I'm not even using node very much these days. Serverless is what I would reach for for most professional applications these days.

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Re:From Node to Ruby on Rails by eclat on Sunday December 19, 2021 @07:45AM (#29613459)

Sinatra covers that use case in Ruby.

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