Ask HN: When to use rails and when to use Meteor?

8 points·minaandrawos··5 comments

My question is simple: what are the best use cases for each framework in real life compared to the other? I am a systems backend dev (Java, C#, Go, Python) getting interested in web dev. So far I tried out some pet projects on both frameworks, and I think both are more than amazing.

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The main difference boils down to SQL vs NoSQL. Other than that, Rails is more polished, ruby is much more beautiful IMHO than JS, but then again a website without some JS looks/feels old. So since you're going to need JS why not build everything in the same language? :-)

Whatever you choose good luck!

Ben Green is amazing. Here's a lightning talk he gave recently showing his work on adding SQL support in Meteor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJzulpXZn6g

Here's an update he made a month later:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSI68J9wNJ0

Here's a link to the package he's published:

https://atmospherejs.com/numtel/mysql

I find myself doing quite a lot with Meteor + React these days!

https://github.com/reactjs/react-meteor

If you throw a router into the mix, you might end up doing everything with Meteor:

https://github.com/mystor/meteor-routecore

I've had a great experience using vue.js. It's faster than Meteor. Very clean. Easy to learn.

We like Vue.js! It has a different scope and a design around POJO rewritten with es5 getters/setters.

Btw, Evan, the creator of Vue.js is working at Meteor now.

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