What's New in Ruby on Rails 8

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Nest.js

* NestJS https://nestjs.com Is there anything better than these?

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Adonis JS

I find that I have a love/hate relationship with Rails. Love the framework, not so much the language. I've been looking for a framework as good as rails for typescript, but haven't found anything to that level. The closest I've seen so far have been: * Adonis https://adonisjs.com.

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RedwoodJS

I think there's a new and healthy rivalry between Ruby, Python, and JS for web backends! - Ruby and Rails now has all of the things mentioned above and more. I do have concerns that Rails will evolve in directions where bundled frontends have less <i>official</i> support, with the continued centralization of 37signals/DHH [0] and their controversial removal of Typescript from Turbo [1] (and bundling in general for Hey), but it's such a large community that there will be continued momentum in all directions. - Python used to be <i>the</i> choice if you expected to do both data processing/machine learning/NLP and web backends in a centralized codebase with a single language. And Django is still a world-class solution there, with gevent + asyncio + forthcoming developments on GIL-less Python all contributing towards making Django a highly performant and parallel framework. That said, with much of an app's data processing complexity often best offloaded towards LLM-powered solutions that have dedicated APIs, and both Ruby [2] and Node having bindings to https://pola.rs/ as an alternative to Pandas, it's no longer the only solution. - And on the JS end, frameworks that enable full-stack batteries-included admin-out-of-the-box development like https://redwoodjs.com/ and https://www.prisma.io/nextjs + e.g. https://next-admin.js.org/ continue to evolve. Nowadays, if you're building a complex web application from scratch, Prisma provides all the escape hatches you'd need, so that you can build entirely in JS/TS and have the facilities you'd expect from Rails or Django. I'm really excited that all three communities are continuing to push the boundaries of what's possible; it's amazing to see. [0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30600746">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30600746</a>.

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Noop

Totally, I think there's a lot of retroactive justification for what's familiar whether it be microservice or monolith. They both have advantages and disadvantages -- we're at a point where deploying and running either is available on most clouds. That said, I think interesting possibilities exist where the two approaches are blended. I work for a cloud [1] that supports a concept of "services" grouped within an app each of those services is a web server that can be configured to sleep [2] under specific conditions -- effectively serverless but without the loss of shared memory and all the efficiencies of running a more traditional web server. The grouping of services also provides a way to spin off parts of an application while keeping it within the same deployment process. 1. https://noop.dev 2. https://noop.dev/docs/sleepy-services/.

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