joy VS janetdocs

Hmm I see, that link may be a bit unfortunate, as it only shows the introduction to the docs.

More pages are here: https://github.com/joy-framework/joy/tree/master/docs

PS: I did a very minor contribution to Joy once, so minor that I actually forgot about it :) I don't use Joy myself at the moment as I'm using my own framework, but the Joy docs + source code helped me out a lot in figuring out how to do authentication, csrf, etc!

He made a similar framework for Janet lang in Joy Framework[1] and it's unironically a joy to work with. Joy is one of those tools that is almost enough to make you use a different language imo. Got it where it counts, but still minimal and low mental overhead.

[1]: https://joy.swlkr.com/

>Node.js comes so close but anemic standard library

The nodejs API is rather big really. If you're using Ruby as your standard of normal sized almost everything would look small in comparison, but "anemic" is a stretch. You'd really hate Lua.

If you're taking suggestions, you might enjoy Janet[1]. It has a pretty large user API, lots of bells and whistles included in the standard libs like you'd find in Ruby, and lots of different ways to achieve the same result like Ruby. It's been a while since I checked out the ecosystem, but I was _very_ happy with the Joy Framework[2]. It definitely doesn't come close to the scope of Rails, but I think it _does_ near Rails in it's easy of use for the developer with it's scaffolding, controller generation etc.

[1]: https://janet-lang.org/

[2]: https://github.com/joy-framework/joy

Most of what you're asking for is described in the docs, with examples. If you're looking for an example project using Joy, I think janetdocs[0] may be a good example. Some Janet experience may be good before diving into that repo, because it imports Joy with `:prefix ""`.

Also keep in mind that 99% of this seems[1] to have been made by 1 guy (Sean Walker), I think in his free time.

[0]: https://github.com/swlkr/janetdocs