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aaronbrethorst on Jan 10, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Web apps built with Ruby on Rails

Might be worth spending 30 minutes watching a video of what you can build with Rails in that amount of time instead of smugly dismissing it.

There’s a great example on the home page here: https://rubyonrails.org/

xyzzy4747 on Jan 10, 2025 [–]

I've used it before, but Next.js with TypeScript is much superior in many different ways.

clivestaples on Jan 11, 2025 | [–]

Honest question: Where do you deploy? What do you use for queues? Database? It's impossible to beat React for component libraries but, lemme tell you, I've struggled to be productive with Next when compared to Rails.

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