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  1. inertia-rails

    The Rails adapter for Inertia.js.

    Any thoughts on Inertia.js, which seems like a good solution for React + Rails? Feels like you can have your cake and eat it too.

    https://github.com/inertiajs/inertia-rails

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  3. graphql

    RedwoodGraphQL

    If we were keeping in the JS ecosystem, there’s Redwood [0] which has around a while.

    [0] https://redwoodjs.com/

    not comparable to Rails or Django’s definition of “a while” but it’s quite mature.

  4. ckeditor5-rails

    🚀 CKEditor 5 Ruby Gem – a powerful WYSIWYG editor for Rails! Smooth integration with web components and helper methods. 💎 Supports GPL & commercial licenses, flexible CDN options, and translations. 🎨 Easy setup with presets, plugins, and async loading. ⚡

    One of the biggest issues is that newer tools often lack Rails integrations. I recently built one for CKEditor - happy to share details if anyone's interested.

    https://github.com/Mati365/ckeditor5-rails?tab=readme-ov-fil...

  5. wasp

    The batteries-included full-stack framework for the AI era. Develop JS/TS web apps (React, Node.js, and Prisma) using declarative code that abstracts away complex full-stack features like auth, background jobs, RPC, email sending, end-to-end type safety, single-command deployment, and more.

    Ruby on Rails has an amazing DX (e.g. engines). We are trying to recreate that for JS with Wasp (https://github.com/wasp-lang/wasp)

  6. Nest

    A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient, scalable, and enterprise-grade server-side applications with TypeScript/JavaScript 🚀

    Ok, you're right.

    I was referring to the usual ones (Next, Nuxt, SvelteKit, Remix, etc).

    Joytick looks cool. Besides this there's also NestJS

    https://nestjs.com/

  7. rdl

    Types, type checking, and contracts for Ruby

    Do you mean Ruby lacks syntactic support for adding type annotations inline in your programs?

    I am one of the authors of RDL (https://github.com/tupl-tufts/rdl) a research project that looked at type systems for Ruby before it became mainstream. We went for strings that looked nice, but were parsed into a type signature. Sorbet, on the other hand, uses Ruby values in a DSL to define types. We were of the impression that many of our core ideas were absorbed by other projects and Sorbet and RBS has pretty much mainstream. What is missing to get usable gradual types in Ruby?

  8. causeway

    Use Apache Causeway™ to rapidly develop domain-driven apps or modular monoliths in Java, on top of the Spring Boot platform. Write your business logic in entities, domain services or view models, and the framework dynamically generates a representation of that domain model as a webapp, GraphQL or RESTful API. For prototyping or production.

    For JVM, Apache Causeway provides similar capabilities (in fact, even more abstracted than RonR). Full disclosure: I'm a committee on that project.

    https://causeway.apache.org

  9. pythonx

    Python interpreter embedded in Elixir

    To add to what others mentioned, there’s also https://github.com/livebook-dev/pythonx which embeds a Python interpreter into your elixir program.

  10. loco

    🚂 🦀 The one-person framework for Rust for side-projects and startups

    Loco is worth keeping an eye on for Rust: https://loco.rs/

    The Go community is more framework-averse, preferring to build things around the standard library and generally avoid third-party dependencies. Go also tends to be used more for backends, services and infrastructure and less for fullstack websites than Ruby/Python/PHP/C#.

  11. leptos

    Build fast web applications with Rust.

    Or if you want more Next.JS like, but still fullstack framework there is https://leptos.dev/ and https://dioxuslabs.com/. Maybe dioxus being much more ambitious in its scope (not just web).

  12. dioxus

    Fullstack app framework for web, desktop, and mobile.

    Or if you want more Next.JS like, but still fullstack framework there is https://leptos.dev/ and https://dioxuslabs.com/. Maybe dioxus being much more ambitious in its scope (not just web).

  13. fasthtml

    The fastest way to create an HTML app

    If you want something more similar to Next.JS but in the python world, now you have https://fastht.ml/, which also has a big performance benefit over Django. Hahaha, same as Next.JS over Rails, because it is much more bare bones. But I would say that fasthtml has the advantage of being super easy to integrate more AI libraries from the python world.

  14. inline-python

    Inline Python code directly in your Rust code

    If you're willing to go the meta programming route, Rust is pretty flexible too. You can literally run python inline using macros.[1]

    In my experience as someone that has been using Rust for a few years (and enjoys writing Rust) the biggest issue regarding adoption is that async Rust just isn't there yet when it comes to user experience.[2]

    It works fine if you don't deviate from the simple stuff, but once you need to start writing your own Futures or custom locks it gets to a point that you REALLY need to understand Rust and its challenging type system.

    [1] - https://github.com/m-ou-se/inline-python

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