Rails is huge. Angular is huge. How did the new big thing become MEAN instead of a stack with Rails and Angular? RAP (Rails, Angular, PostgreSQL) has a nice ring, no?
Yeah, having JavaScript on both sides is nice, but from what I've read, it's not really *that* nice, certainly not as big a deal as leveraging all that Rails takes care of. Maybe I'm wrong about that. Does restlessness actually dictate technology direction so much? If Rails were exactly as it is but had the same birthday as Node, would things be different? Here's my trade-off report <http://www.dancancro.com/compare-app-technologies/> between Rails and Node Ruby on Rails offers: 1% that Node.js. doesn't * 0.2% Safe from cross-site request forgery CSRF * 0.2% Safe from stored cross-site scripting (xss) attacks * 0.2% Object-relational mapping * 0.1% Approach to frontend routing or state changing, Front-end routes auto gen'd from back-end routes * 0.0% Well tested before a release (top 10% in class) * 0.0% Many unit tests (top 10% in class) * 0.0% Uses inheritance * 0.0% Reusable components, using mixins * 0.0% Reusable components, for UI * 0.0% Reusable components, for UI, using Web Components * 0.0% Hierarchical components * 0.0% State and state-modifying code in same place * 0.0% Server-side dependency injection (doesn't need) * 0.0% Object persistence * 0.0% Supports dynamic, validated fields * 0.0% Server-side routing * 0.0% Server-side routing, with RESTful XHR controllers * 0.0% Route by convention-over-configuration * 0.0% Regular expression routes * 0.0% ||= operator * 0.0% Destructuring * 0.0% Ellipsis variable parameter syntax * 0.0% Enumeration Type * 0.0% Function parameter defaults * 0.0% Generators (Yield) * 0.0% Implicit return * 0.0% Named function parameters (keyword args) * 0.0% Numbers are objects * 0.0% Object oriented, supports classical inheritance * 0.0% Object oriented, supports classical inheritance, with multiple inheritance * 0.0% Object oriented, supports classical inheritance, with multiple inheritance, using mixins * 0.0% Object oriented, supports classical inheritance, with multiple inheritance, using extension * 0.0% Object oriented, supports dynamic method lookup * 0.0% Optionals * 0.0% Private properties * 0.0% String interpolation * 0.0% String multiplication * 0.0% Unicode strings support * 0.0% Convention over configuration (top 10% in class) * 0.0% Command-line Interface * 0.0% Command-line Interface, is extensibile * 0.0% Command-line Interface, does scaffolding * 0.0% Command-line Interface, does database seeding * 0.0% Command-line Interface, does database migration/evolution * 0.0% Bulit-in webserver * 0.0% App template system * 0.0% Opinionated (top 25% in class) * 0.0% Few silent failures (top 10% in class) * 0.0% Easy to test, logic (top 10% in class) * 0.0% Fast to develop app (top 10% in class) * 0.0% Fast to build app (top 10% in class) * 0.0% Fast to load app (top 10% in class) =================== =================== Node.js. offers: 0% that Ruby on Rails doesn't * 0.0% Large installation base (top 10% in class) * 0.0% Extensible in C/C++ * 0.0% Can run without plugins in a browser (Use Browserify) * 0.0% ++ and -- operators * 0.0% += for strings * 0.0% Event driven * 0.0% Functional, with anonymous functions * 0.0% Functions can be called before they are declared * 0.0% Object oriented, supports prototypal inheritance * 0.0% String addition * 0.0% Typed, dynamically * 0.0% Typed, dynamically, with automatic type conversion * 0.0% Automatic memory management * 0.0% You can see changes without recompiling * 0.0% Little boilerplate (top 10% in class) (lots of modules written by people) * 0.0% Low accidental complexity (top 10% in class) * 0.0% Small # of data structures (top 10% in class) * 0.0% Lazy (on-demand) loading of client-side code * 0.0% Lazy (on-demand) loading of client-side code, JavaScript * 0.0% Non-blocking, event-driven I/O * 0.0% Threads See any errors in this? Click here <http://www.dancancro.com/technology-questionnaires/>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AngularJS" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/angular. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
