I think other than Rails, it is also worth considering the other full-stack frameworks: Laravel, Django, and Phoenix.
I've spent the past year or so on and off building things in Phoenix. Elixir is an amazing programming language, and LiveView is pretty cool. If you are building something complex, I think Elixir and Phoenix solve a bunch of tough
things for you out of the box, thanks to the BEAM. However, I find that the sort of websites I like to make are not complex and pretty much are content-based with a tiny bit of CRUD.
Because of this, I've lately been exploring Laravel. PHP is pretty much _the_ language for content-oriented sites, and it isn't going away anytime soon. I've been looking into CMSes like Statamic and CraftCMS and of course Wordpress. Laravel seems to have as big of a community around it as Rails. I've also noticed that many of the things I've used in the past couple years have come out of the Laravel community, in a sense, such as Tailwinds and Alpine.
IMO, most of the frameworks are somewhat interchangeable. The reason why Laravel interests me is because I no longer want to chase new and shiny things. PHP will always be around, and I always tend to like content-oriented sort of business models more. I figure that I might as well embrace the ugliness of PHP and stop thinking about programming languages and frameworks and instead spend my time thinking about what I can make.
I've spent the past year or so on and off building things in Phoenix. Elixir is an amazing programming language, and LiveView is pretty cool. If you are building something complex, I think Elixir and Phoenix solve a bunch of tough things for you out of the box, thanks to the BEAM. However, I find that the sort of websites I like to make are not complex and pretty much are content-based with a tiny bit of CRUD.
Because of this, I've lately been exploring Laravel. PHP is pretty much _the_ language for content-oriented sites, and it isn't going away anytime soon. I've been looking into CMSes like Statamic and CraftCMS and of course Wordpress. Laravel seems to have as big of a community around it as Rails. I've also noticed that many of the things I've used in the past couple years have come out of the Laravel community, in a sense, such as Tailwinds and Alpine.
IMO, most of the frameworks are somewhat interchangeable. The reason why Laravel interests me is because I no longer want to chase new and shiny things. PHP will always be around, and I always tend to like content-oriented sort of business models more. I figure that I might as well embrace the ugliness of PHP and stop thinking about programming languages and frameworks and instead spend my time thinking about what I can make.