I worked on a Laravel/Next.js project last year and couldn’t believe how much stuff you didn’t get for free, from debugging PHP to building the assets.

Rails JS build support is confusing and messy, but seems to be under control now, and is as much a fault of the JS ecosystem/hellscape as the maintainers. Turbo seems a bit uncertain too. But on the whole, it is ridiculously easy to get stuff done.

Things I would like addressed better:

* Authentication and Authorization

Actually, that’s it.