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Discussion on: The Best Frameworks to Build a Minimum Viable Product

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Ghost

Not really knowing about it I have some reservations about Rails and Vue.js, I've noticed that Rails and Ruby in general has lost a lot of steam; I used to see Rails everywhere, posts all over the place, tutorials, videos, etc. You googled "web framework" and there was Rails, but not anymore, is just my perception or it is a bit like that?

And about Vue, years ago Vue was the underdog, the little guy, built by just one guy and without a big supporter against Google and Facebook; everyone talked about how great it was and how it was gonna grow to be a serious contender, well, years has pased and seems to me that is still not a huge contender, still developed by one guy, and not visible support from a big dog. For some reason it seems like it got stuck or is just me?, even here in dev.to I don't see it as much as React and even Angular. It's battle cry was it was smaller and easier but since then we got Stencil, Svelte and others much smaller, even some renaissance of vanilla. Seems to me that from the market perspective React is a better choice and for minimal/light Svelte or Stencil.

I'm more of a backend guy with some short incursions to the front, I'm worked mostly with Django and embedded devices and now with Rust, just because is awesome and I wanted to go lower (I use some C in embedded, not my favorite). So about Vue and Rails is just my perception and I'm aware that is else strongly affected by the local markets.

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The only thing I like about Rails is the Rails console. If somebody can replicate that for other frameworks, then I think that'll make fiddling with data and debugging much easier.

Vue had a smaller ecosystem but now more and more people are using it and making libraries for it.

I'm actually happy with most frameworks. Except that Angular is less expressive than the other ones.

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Ghost • Edited

Good to know Vue is still here and healthy, it always looked interesting and at one point my choice was between Django and Rails an Django won for me just because of Python and how much you can do with it, but it was a close fight (I always envied the Rails for Zombies course).