Comparing node vs rails is weird. Rails might have been designed with productivity first approach.
Are there any node.js based framework that has similar productivity speed with Rails?
Are there any node.js based framework that has similar productivity speed with Rails?
Sveltekit uses an intuitive file based routing system, so for side projects at least, you can build out an app/POC very quickly.
Personally, I like Sveltekit's back end server better than Rails (to be fair, I haven't used Rails heavily since v3/v4) and Express. Having said that, I'm not sure Sveltekit's node adapter has been proven to scale yet.
Rails has a lot of nice stuff baked in though. So in terms of the many other moving parts of making an app, such as migrations, db connectivity, I think that's where a lot of time can be added on the Node side, especially if you don't already have a shortlist of go-to libraries for the core functionality you want/need.
the weird part about this post is it compares a framework to a runtime. that's weird and dishonest. a more realistic comparison is ruby to javascript.