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Alternatives to Rails

Django, Ruby, Sinatra, React, and Laravel are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Rails.
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What is Rails and what are its top alternatives?

Rails is a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.
Rails is a tool in the Frameworks (Full Stack) category of a tech stack.
Rails is an open source tool with 54.9K GitHub stars and 21.3K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Rails's open source repository on GitHub

Top Alternatives to Rails

  • Django
    Django

    Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. ...

  • Ruby
    Ruby

    Ruby is a language of careful balance. Its creator, Yukihiro “Matz” Matsumoto, blended parts of his favorite languages (Perl, Smalltalk, Eiffel, Ada, and Lisp) to form a new language that balanced functional programming with imperative programming. ...

  • Sinatra
    Sinatra

    Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort. ...

  • React
    React

    Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project. ...

  • Laravel
    Laravel

    It is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. It attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching. ...

  • Node.js
    Node.js

    Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices. ...

  • Rake
    Rake

    It is a software task management and build automation tool. It allows the user to specify tasks and describe dependencies as well as to group tasks in a namespace. ...

  • JavaScript
    JavaScript

    JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles. ...

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