Ask HN: Why is there no Django/Rails equivalent in JavaScript world?

• SailsJS

  41 22,773 6.7 JavaScript

  Realtime MVC Framework for Node.js

  

This is fairly close https://sailsjs.com. I've used it on some side projects and it definitely felt like it made doing node apps faster than doing things by hand.

• redwood

  114 16,734 10.0 TypeScript

  The App Framework for Startups

  

Well, well... that may not be true for much longer. just take a look at RedwoodJS - https://redwoodjs.com. It's near 1.0, has a solid core team (with a really sounding track record) and just works (really)!

You can't get anything near as sober, sane, predictable, and idiomatic as it IMHO. Just try it.

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• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• layr

  4 1,210 2.0 TypeScript

  Dramatically simplify full‑stack development

  

Layr.js is trying to take on something in this middle space. It basically hides either end from you and is still hard to reason about. Only mongodb is supported now. And yes I much prefer the option of having many community made packages over one supported way.

https://github.com/layrjs/layr

• NectarJS

  6 3,540 0.0 C++

  🔱 Javascript's God Mode. No VM. No Bytecode. No GC. Just native binaries.

  

Rails/Ruby performance has improved:

https://medium.com/retention-science/ruby-is-still-a-diamond...

Alhough, compiling Javascript to binary makes code even faster https://nectar.js.org , although I wish that project would get more love with bugfixes https://github.com/NectarJS/nectarjs/issues

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