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Christ. It did keep up. Every new rails release just makes it better and better. Rails isn’t popular anymore because people followed the swan song of language isomorphism overlooking JavaScript’s deficiencies. NodeJS improved by... adding Rails features.

It’s amazing that people think there’s more to this story. It was Node that couldn’t keep up with Rails. No one cares cuz they didn’t want to learn ruby.

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I don't really see too many companies or projects using node on the back end. It's pretty hard to buy that node replaced rails. I see a lot more Java than anything else.

A lot of companies I'm speaking to (mostly Berlin/Germany based startups) have drank the "we have to use JS on the frontend anyways, and by going fullstack JS we can reduce our payroll since we can focus on only hiring JS devs and they magically work on ReactNative, the React web app and the Node.JS backend at the sime time" koolaid. Works super well for some, less so for others...

Edit: Explicitly added Node.JS since that's what they rave about for making it possible.

That's because Java is one of the top 3 adopted languages and is general purpose. A more relevant comparison would be between Node.js and Django, Rails or Laravel and as far as job stats go, eg. https://indeed.com, Node.js is everywhere.

i think it really depends on the industry - mine for example, most of the bigger players are running express apps on the FE (not 100% sure on backend, seems a mix of go/node and other things) - but why bother to run express/node on the frontend if you're not also going to leverage it on the backend.

The web becomes very narrow not only there are mostly Chromium based browsers, but also Node based backend technology for rendering HTML (in javascript). Very coupling tech.

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