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SailsJS discussion
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AdonisJS
I haven't used either so I can't chime in on that front, but long ago I was pretty into Sails which is written by a team that loves rails, but switched to NodeJS so it's basically Node on Rails. I actually thought they discontinued it, but I just searched and it still exists. It was a solid framework like 5 years ago when I used it last so I assume it's quite mature now.
https://sailsjs.com/
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Choosing the best JavaScript framework for your next project
Sails is a realtime JavaScript framework built on top of Express. Sails offers built-in realtime communication support and a flexible routing system.
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Best NodeJS frameworks for seamless backend development
Community stats: Sails GitHub repository has an active community with 22.78k stars and 2k forks. They also have a YouTube channel with a library of useful tutorial videos.
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The Ascent of Node.js: How a runtime changed the Web
Sails.js: Sails.js pitched itself as the MVC framework for Node.js, bringing a Rails-like experience while being database agnostic.
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WebSockets 101
Disclaimer: I didn't know much about Websockets 1 week ago, all the experience I had with Websockets was when I developed a chat application back in 2016 using a JS framework that tried to be a Ruby on Rails implementation called SailsJS, so I decided to research about this technology and consumed multiple resources which I will link in this blog post and each section.
- Learning NodeJS - So far, I don't quite like it so much
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Advice on promoting and pitching Rails
Perhaps Sails.js. They mention RoR. An Angular teacher used it to create a fast API.
- Does node have a Rails-like framework? (that has isn't dead)
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Building GitHub with Ruby on Rails
I was just talking about this topic of whether we really has any Rails-influenced JS frameworks out there in the wild. And I struggled to come up with anything off the top of my head other than Sails.js [1]. RedwoodJS looks interesting, what about it in particular do you find exciting?
[1] https://github.com/balderdashy/sails
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Node JS Microservice Frameworks for Developing Scalable Web Apps.
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balderdashy/sails is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of SailsJS is JavaScript.
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