Ruby on Rails vs. Express.js : node

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2021-05-19 07:42:00

I think it just depends what you're building. You can build almost anything in ruby you can build in node. What does the developer or lead developer prefer in the tech stack? Node is nice because you use 1 language to write an entire app, front and back. Now with google and their firebase product heavily relying on node I think you'll see it explode because of how simple it is to create microservices

Firebase can be used both with Rails and Node, and I wouldn't recommend it when you have to store mission critical data in DB. However it's great for quick prototyping of a mobile applications.

Why? Im using it now for real-time apps in commerce and iOS apps right now. It performs fine. Since google acquired them the infrastructure has vastly improved and with the advent of "Functions" you can create back end code as well

I'm a little bit conservative where it comes to operations that should take something less or near to 100 milliseconds. There is no time to lose for HTTPS overhead. ;) As you said, it all depends what do you need.