Comment by usernamed7
1 month ago
as a Rails dev this makes me LOL. I would have expected the rube goldburg machine of JS frameworks to be more robust and ergonomic by now, but it looks more to be hacks built on top of hacks with no real vision or technical leadership.
RoR wasn't picked up by e-commerce at this scale. Most of the craziness comes from attempting to squeeze out every last inch of performance so that the prospective client won't go "neeeih" and shop somewhere else.
A RoR app will just sit comfortably wherever you deploy it, slowly doing its job like a good, reliable tractor.
A typical Next.js app is smeared all across its origin, some geographically convenient Edge and the frontend. It's a very different use case.
what do you mean? Shopify is the largest eCommerce platform and runs rails.
I think they mean that Shopify doesn't decide what happens or doesn't happen to Rails; Vercel decides what happens or doesn't happen to NextJS.
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Like said in the article, most other JS frameworks are actually pretty good these days.
I work with Vue 2 and Vue 3, both options and composition APIs and both are pretty great. I dont know how it's like for very complex UI but it 100% fulfills my needs.
Also shout out to Pinia, I love you!
I have a monstrosity of a Vue 3 project at work and I far prefer it to any "elegant" React codebase I've ever had the displeasure of working with. Boggles the mind that React still has any mindshare to me, Vue and Svelte are both superior to it in pretty much every way except for availability of component libraries (which isn't so relevant in my line of work), and a slight edge in terms of TypeScript support (mostly a problem with Vue's props).
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Yet 95% of fresh companies raising funds use that cursed NextJS framework.
This feels a whole lot like when everybody with VC cash was using Mongo. And I see that as a competitive advantage if your competitor is using these types of technologies, it means you can out maneuver them and build a better product.