I built my last company with Go, Vue.js, gRPC, and Kubernetes. And, wow was it a slog. It was hard for new developers to jump in, we had separate engineers for

I built my last company with Go, Vue.js, gRPC, and Kubernetes. And, wow was it a slog. It was hard for new developers to jump in, we had separate engineers for frontend + backend, and there were things we never even touched - such as real-time/websockets or end-to-end testing. I recently started a new project in the same stack [1], and partway through paused because it was taking so long to deliver customer value. I jumped back into Rails, inspired by their new Hotwired framework [2]. And, holy shit - the speed of development became insanely quick. Not only that, but I've been able to achieve a higher level of polish than I would have with a single-page JS app. Specifically - building in real-time updates only took a few lines of code. It was possible to achieve this level of polish with an SPA, but realistically it would have taken me so much time that I would have never prioritized it. I hadn't touched Rails in over a decade. As a junior developer, I felt overwhelmed because Rails had solutions for so many problems I had not yet encountered. But, returning to Rails with some more experience - I appreciate its "omakase" [4] approach so much more. So many best practices are built in or easy-to-install. Queues, cron, async jobs, audit logs, email click tracking, end-to-end testing, real-time updates, caching, sessions, URL slug "friendly IDs", image resizing, rate limiting, admin interfaces, rich text fields, S3 integrations, sitemaps - they all just work! With the new Version 7, Rails is truly a "One Person Framework" [5]. [1] https://www.booklet.group https://www.booklet.group [2] https://hotwired.dev/ https://hotwired.dev/ [3] https://bookletupdates.substack.com/p/comments-directory-and-some-surprises https://bookletupdates.substack.com/p/comments-directory-and... [4] https://dhh.dk/2012/rails-is-omakase.html https://dhh.dk/2012/rails-is-omakase.html [5] https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-one-person-framework-711e6318 https://world.hey.com/dhh/the-one-person-framework-711e6318