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Ask HN: When to use rails and when to use Meteor?
My question is simple: what are the best use cases for each framework in real life compared to the other? I am a systems backend dev (Java, C#, Go, Python) getting interested in web dev. So far I tried out some pet projects on both frameworks, and I think both are more than amazing.
- atmosx 12y agoThe main difference boils down to SQL vs NoSQL. Other than that, Rails is more polished, ruby is much more beautiful IMHO than JS, but then again a website without some JS looks/feels old. So since you're going to need JS why not build everything in the same language? :-) Whatever you choose good luck!
- maxharris 12y agoBen Green is amazing. Here's a lightning talk he gave recently showing his work on adding SQL support in Meteor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJzulpXZn6g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJzulpXZn6g Here's an update he made a month later: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSI68J9wNJ0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSI68J9wNJ0 Here's a link to the package he's published: https://atmospherejs.com/numtel/mysql https://atmospherejs.com/numtel/mysql
- maxharris 12y agoI find myself doing quite a lot with Meteor + React these days! https://github.com/reactjs/react-meteor https://github.com/reactjs/react-meteor If you throw a router into the mix, you might end up doing everything with Meteor: https://github.com/mystor/meteor-routecore https://github.com/mystor/meteor-routecore
- jcoffland 12y agoI've had a great experience using vue.js. It's faster than Meteor. Very clean. Easy to learn.
- imslavko 12y agoWe like Vue.js! It has a different scope and a design around POJO rewritten with es5 getters/setters. Btw, Evan, the creator of Vue.js is working at Meteor now.