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Next.js has a very good developer experience, and there's lots of tutorials and documentation on it. With that said, there's nothing wrong with picking Rails. It's not as popular as the JS frameworks anymore, but it's arguably much better in many ways.

JS suggestions: Sveltekit, Next.js, Remix Server-side suggestions: Rails, Phoenix, Django, Laravel

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Next.js does indeed have those positives, but it steers you towards paid services (prisma and vercel)

I suppose. But it's totally viable to use Next.js without using anything from Vercel.

Yes but you do fight the framework in some cases. Take for example persisting a database connection, or a pool of connections. A totally normal use case for a server side framework

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