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My SaaS makes $50K MRR and is built on vanilla Ruby on Rails and jQuery
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Re: My SaaS makes $50K MRR and is built on vanilla Ruby on Rails and jQuery
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
What alternatives would you suggest?
Very interested in this, if I could find something 50% faster with 80% the functionality/maturity of Rails I’d do all new projects in it.
If you’re OK with Elixir, I think Phoenix hits those points pretty well. Maybe not everything is a ‘gem install’ away, but hex is no slouch.
Re: My SaaS makes $50K MRR and is built on vanilla Ruby on Rails and jQuery
#13But if you don’t already know a backend framework, Rails is probably not the best choice to learn at this point.
What alternatives would you suggest?
> What alternatives would you suggest?
Can't speak for OP, but it feels like every mature language/runtime out there has a framework or two that are popular.
Ruby has Rails: https://rubyonrails.org/
Python has Django: https://www.djangoproject.com/
Node has Express: https://expressjs.com/
PHP has Laravel: https://laravel.com/
Java has Spring (nowadays Spring Boot in particular): https://spring.io/
.NET has ASP.NET: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/aspnet/what-is-aspn...
This can change with time, of course, but I'd say that it's hard to go with any of them, even Ruby on Rails is pretty good in most respects, as long as you don't try to fight what's idiomatic in it.
As for the performance, having a quick look here might give a very vague idea (though the code for those benchmarks is sometimes optimized a bit too much), though running your own is best: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21&f=z... Also have a look at the filters for other stacks!
Re: My SaaS makes $50K MRR and is built on vanilla Ruby on Rails and jQuery
#14But if you don’t already know a backend framework, Rails is probably not the best choice to learn at this point.
What alternatives would you suggest?
It’s contextual. If you only know JS that eliminates the PHP, Ruby, Java, Rust, and Python options unless you want to learn a new language.
The JS ecosystem has Express, but that’s pretty lightweight. I think the sweet spot is probably leveraging SSR frameworks like Next and SvelteKit if you want something with “batteries included”
Re: My SaaS makes $50K MRR and is built on vanilla Ruby on Rails and jQuery
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
Very interested in this, if I could find something 50% faster with 80% the functionality/maturity of Rails I’d do all new projects in it.
If you’re OK with Elixir, I think Phoenix hits those points pretty well. Maybe not everything is a ‘gem install’ away, but hex is no slouch.
Thanks! I'll look into it.
Re: My SaaS makes $50K MRR and is built on vanilla Ruby on Rails and jQuery
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
What alternatives would you suggest?
Very interested in this, if I could find something 50% faster with 80% the functionality/maturity of Rails I’d do all new projects in it.
Productivity out of any framework will be driven by your familiarity with it. They all have their warts and rough edges that will take hours to fix and workaround.
Learning a new framework has value in future projects. Definitely not for the product you plan to ship next.
I can't see any strong reasons performance or otherwise to abandon one modern framework (PHP, Node, Python, Ruby, Java, C#) for any other. Difference in cost is again minimal.
The best option is the one you know best already. Learning a new one always helps you grow.