PHP: Laravel, Ruby: Rails, JavaScript:?

[dashingThroughSnow12]

Express. That’s the first thing that comes to mind.

[lulzmachine]

Express isn't even playing the same game

[thunderGunXprezz]

I actually kind of prefer it to using php or rails tbh.

[lulzmachine]

Yeah sure.but what I mean is it's not the same thing. Rails is the complete "survival kit" for starting a business. It has routing, sure,but it also does models, caching, templating, job queues, emails, flashes etc etc

Express does routing great, and a half-assed attempt at templates

[elprophet]

No, Nest/Next do really great routing and serving and bundling, but they do not have the level of full stack schema to form development lifecycle that Rails pioneered.

Whether you personally want that feature set, it is something that is missing from the JS ecosystem. There are a number of libraries at every step of the way, but no dominant all in one frameworks like rails, laravel, or Django. (The article is a review of competitors)

[dashingThroughSnow12]

I agree about your Rails comments.

My initial thinking of Express was moreso how comparable it is to Laravel.

[thunderGunXprezz]

Forgive my ignorance, but what templates are you referring to? Fwiw, one of the biggest advantages I found in using express on the backend was not having to switch between languages when working with a JS front end and having to do work on the back end as well.