RailwayJS / Express on Railway：一个真正的node.js替代Ruby On Rails？

Question

From looking at the documentation of RailwayJS / Express On Railway it seems like an elaborate NodeJS web–framework to me. It is built on top of ExpressJS, offers nice generators and scaffolding and has CoffeeScript support built right in. Does anyone have experience with this framework and would say that it is a true alternative to Ruby On Rails, Django or the like as Express is to Sinatra?

Answer 1

As author of this project (railwayjs) I could tell you: sure, it's cool, use it, share it with colleagues, fork repo, and improve it. But as developer, how use this tool every day, I say to you: this is very young toolkit (less than 1 year old), it still needs more love than just use-out-of-box, as RoR, I not recommend to use it in production, if you are do not completely understand what happens in the app code.

So, if you want to have RoR replacement in nodejs in future - use it, and report about issues. It motivates me to make this project better.

Thanks for posting.

Answer 2

I don't know if the asynchronous nature of the Node environment will ever be quite as elegant as Ruby for Rails-like applications.

I say stick to what you're good at. At least until Node supports something like the Actor model to help with callback hell.