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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 gree
by skohan 5y ago
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.
- jaredcwhite 5y agoBuilding a complex SaaS app or backoffice app on a "greenfield Node server" is a supreme exercise in frustration.
- skohan 5y agoThere'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.
- eclat 5y agoSinatra covers that use case in Ruby.