> So, I'm honestly asking, as someone who hates Rails: What framework, out there, somewhere, allows me to be as productive as Rails, but which is are "better,"

> So, I'm honestly asking, as someone who hates Rails: What framework, out there, somewhere, allows me to be as productive as Rails, but which is are "better," somehow? I'm a former RoR developer (about 5 years) who's now been a full time Elixir developer for two years, so I'll make the obvious suggestion of Phoenix, which is very rails inspired. It's a little more clunky in the basics, but it has that "magical" feel that hooked me on Rails back in the day, if you want websockets. And there's a new feature coming down the pike, called LiveView[0] that I think could be a total game changer the way Rails was. For right now, I think of Phoenix as another rails, better in some ways worse in others, but not better enough for most people to switch. But if LiveView pans out the way I think, then it'll absolutely be the killer feature that will get new apps started in Phoenix, and it's only possible due to Elixir/Erlang's concurrency foundation. Briefly, it takes the React data model – state at the top of the tree, render the tree based on the current state, change the state and the tree re-renders appropriately – and moves it to the server, using websockets to keep the client up to date. So every connected client has its state in a little elixir process, and interacting with the page transparently is calling functions on the server so you can update the DB or whatever with your normal server side code. And if you had a normal server-side rendered view with an `<%= if .... %>` in it, and that condition changed, then voila, that part of the page will change because Phoenix will re-render it, and send down the diff and the page will put in the new HTML. On all the Rails apps I've worked on we've inevitably added a bit of React here or Angular there to make certain pages a little more dynamic, and then exposed an API for those to hit, and then had frontend and backend development to do. I think what LiveView will provide hits the sweet spot for most apps, so you can stay in your comfortable backend language and get a bit of dynamism for free. [0] https://dockyard.com/blog/2018/12/12/phoenix-liveview-interactive-real-time-apps-no-need-to-write-javascript https://dockyard.com/blog/2018/12/12/phoenix-liveview-intera...