I built 10 web apps... with 10 different languages

Which serverside web framework is the best? To find out, I built the same app 10 times with 10 different programming languages.. Learn the fundamentals of fullstack web development by comparing MVC frameworks.
#webdev #programming #top10
🔗 Resources
Ruby on Rails rubyonrails.org/
Python Django djangoproject.com
PHP Laravel laravel.com/
Java Spring spring.io/
C# .NET dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/ap...
Next.js nextjs.org/
Elixir Phoenix phoenixframework.org/
Rust Rocket rocket.rs/
Go Gin gin-gonic.com/
Swift Vapor vapor.codes/
Kotlin Ktor ktor.io/
📚 Chapters
00:00 I Built 10 Fullstack Apps
01:04 MVC Architecture Explained
01:39 Rails
03:58 Django
05:14 Laravel
06:32 Next
08:23 Spring
09:25 .NET
10:36 Phoenix
11:27 Gin
12:25 Rocket
13:13 Vapor
13:52 Ktor
14:01 The GOAT
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🔖 Topics Covered
- Comparison of server-side frameworks
- How to build a fullstack web app
- Best way to build a web application
- Comparison of web development tools

[@michael.knight]

The best framework is the one that actually gets your product launched in a reasonable time.

[@_ShayKStage]

And gets it working

[@yoursweatersux]

So, never use Java or C# for anything. Got it.

[@surajkumar-gx6gf]

@@_ShayKStage and i say it is rails : kzbin.info/www/bejne/n37Pdappa5Jgi9E

[@surajkumar-gx6gf]

@@yoursweatersux 😂😂😂

[@KhoPhi]

The word you were looking for is Django, right?

[@LucasOliveira-dj6gg]

Man I'm so excited to watch you build a web app in portuguese, english, spanish, german, japanese, swahili, polish, arabic, urdu and czech

[@FaZekiller-qe3uf]

@@xdrap1 why not?

[@vicentsimon319]

Umesema?

[@mokafi7]

اذا(استعملت_جوجل){ كتب("غبي")؛ }

[@jchaloupka007]

@anonymous anonymous Same here

[@philippebaillargeon5204]

Et en français aussi ? :(

[@AdisDurakovic]

After watching the video, I know feel confident to add all these frameworks to my LinkedIn skills. 👍

[@marioalbertohernandeznunez8946]

Well with that optimistic actitude i think you don't have the impostor syndrome

[@BobDoe_69]

7+ years enterprise experience using $language

[@DagreenApple]

😳

[@robovax]

😂😆

[@justinbieber9656]

except Rocket maybe :p

[@DK-ox7ze]

Jeff was trying to point out the differences between these frameworks but I was just noticing how similar they all actually are. If you know MVC, you can pretty much figure out what's happening in any of them.

[@w2lkm2n]

No, not really. The Go gin framework is not even close to Rails or Django for example.

[@GaryTheGarrr]

@@w2lkm2n Gin is explicitly noted to be an exception that doesn't use MVC. Edit: out of the box

[@johngibson4874]

@@w2lkm2n Yes. Gin is closer to Sinatra or Flask

[@luizAugustoll]

because it's the same concept, separate the models (objects based on database), views (frontend for final user) and controllers (for connect the interaction from the users to the interfaces and get the models). Then we have bins (probably for automatization), app config, some template (to avoid write the same html over and over again) and other more specific web config (like public folder).

[@wennwenn1422]

Lets all protest to consolidate languages/frameworks, its getting really crazy out there. Instead of spending time learning new languages we could use it for our leisure/life.

[@BeefIngot]

Could have totally excused the 11 count by saying the count started and 0 and it was the largest index.

[@vaisakhkm783]

Ofcourse XD

[@faceboy1392]

@@surajkumar-gx6gf cease your self promotion

[@proloycodes]

@@surajkumar-gx6gf nobody cares

[@Abrifq]

That's index, not count

[@Hyperboid]

I think "Programmers don't know how to count" covers that

[@wellingtonalmeida2662]

08:22 "Even though Java is a boilerplate driven language for writing instant legacy code" 😂😂😂😂😂 I really like Java, but that's so true it got me dying 😂😂😂😂

[@712Jefferson]

You have absolutely aced the concept of producing witty yet highly informative media in the most digestible, efficient manner possible. Big kudos for that. Keep up the great work.

[@user-fu1sc3nf5z]

it's as if OP have to train that as a skill to write highly instructional, efficient codes to thrive as a programmer.

[@crifox16]

big ups for shouting out the laravel + inertia combo, been using it for a project at work and it really took my laravel developing experience to the next level

[@abubalo]

One would always wonder whether Jeff learned all these languages and frameworks so that he can teach us in 100s.

[@user-sr3zm7yd8i]

Lol

[@xdrap1]

“Learn”, it is just the basics for a YT video, man!

[@TopBagon]

He didn't learn he simply tried to recreate the same app using different frameworks and then talked about the experience for the most part. Not hating just making this clear so you don't get discouraged

[@e.informatique4996]

@@TopBagon @xdrap1 I consider that I learnt a language when I can successfully create a working app with it. But yes, we *master* a language with lot more time than "basics" Have you created a full working app for each one of these language ? I personally don't have the courage and the patience to do so, and I suppose you as well

[@namoshek1819]

Based on the code he added himself to the Laravel setup, I can tell you he has no experience in neither Laravel nor PHP. So I'm kinda hesitating whether he is the right one to judge ... :/

[@madsiesss]

this has made me realise how little i truly know about web dev so many terms ive never heard of

[@pdblouin]

Yeah all I can do is write simple Python or Basic scripts. I had never heard of any of these frameworks, tbh didn't even know the word "Framework".

[@jerry9548]

@@pdblouin well, it is exactly what the name suggest: tools stitched together to provide you a framework in which you can develop applications :D (for example for handling stuff like http reqests, database access, json parsing, etc.)

[@samyar5333]

there was a time where i thought i only needed vanilla html, css, and js :|

[@jerry9548]

@@samyar5333 * dies from nostalgia *

[@DerMichael]

If you don't get thrown into one of these on your first job, quit immediately. Doesn't matter which framework they use, as long as they use one and do it right.

[@jandresfg]

Amazing video. Showed me how to kickstart a project in any of those languages and also a high level insight into how it feels to use them and how opinionated each framework is, which could take years to learn on my own. You're a blessing. Thanks

[@sebby007]

That's one of the best youtube videos I've seen in a long time. And I've seen more than healthy. Amazing work!

[@stef9019]

I felt that Rust section. Tried it myself and basically came to the same conclusion with Rocket and Diesel. Especially Diesel is such an overkill with an entire CLI if you just want to create a simple application. I found Actix and sqlx to be much more minimal and simple to use.

[@lauej]

As Jeff himself said, it really is because Rust is much more low level than the competition. Rust is an amazing language that has many usecases, but I don't think I'll ever choose Rust for web development besides maybe some computationally heavy APIs. I think it's funny he mentioned Rust, when he choose to skip C, C++ and other low level languages. :P

[@CuriousSpy]

@@lauej You don't need to write low level code in rust. Just because you have control over life of your variables doesn't mean its TOO COMPLICATED. Rust has many abstractions and libs that provide this abstractions

[@michawhite7613]

Rust is my personal favorite language for writing web applications. The nonexistence of null, unchecked exceptions, and data races help me really make sure the code is correct, which I think is necessary for a web application. Rust makes it hard to get your program to compile, but that's because the compiler already knows that your code won't work.

[@danielbatesj]

I did something very similar. I started with actix and Diesel, but using an ORM was too restrictive and bulky, SQLx was a nice replacement. I tried Rocket for a while, but I ran into a lot of issues, and ended up sticking to actix. In the end tho, I'm very happy I learned Server-side web development with Rust, it was a bit painful, but I learned a lot and trying to use something like JavaScript is very frustrating for me now.

[@sohn7767]

@@lauej yeah this is the way tbh. Just use rust for performance crucial areas.

[@vrogo4307]

Didn't expect the ending lmao Was fully expecting the "the best framework is the one you chose" route. The "nah, f. That... Rails is the goat" plot twist righ after cracked me up lol

[@user-kf8fj2mc7u]

Thank you for mentioning framework X! It's really amazing to use. As X developer I think it's the best out there. The documentation is VERY detailed. The community is very friendly which makes X development a breeze.

[@sormokah8229]

Huh. I didn't know twitter had a framework.

[@azurefrost8967]

@@sormokah8229 i had the same thought omg 😭

[@evansgithinji4617]

well played Sormokah, well played.

[@user-rk1ic9pq7r]

@@sormokah8229Coming soon

[@LeCyProductions]

Thanks for showing Rails and Phoenix some love! Excited for Elixir in 100s!

[@stefanwandl]

Something like this deserves way more attention. It really gives a nice overview of all these frameworks and their ways of doing things.

[@dmz985]

In Java, "decorators" are called "annotations" (but they are essentially the same).

[@szhzs6121]

public static void main string args, public static void main string args, public static void main string args

[@deepakpune1]

java one looked good, why it isnt very populay

[@dmz985]

@@deepakpune1 it is actually pretty widely used in the industry, most notably in the financial sector.

[@deepakpune1]

@@dmz985 java is fab, my first oops language:)

[@dmz985]

@@deepakpune1 you can't go wrong with it if you want a job. Java devs will still be needed for a long time.

[@MichaelMarques]

I didn't have an easy time learning Thymeleaf either when I first tried it out, but honestly, it's hands down the most powerful templating framework I've ever used. It's re-usability is mind blowing, you can dynamically template html tags from different html pages by using a selector, it's ridiculous.

[@deimuader]

This is probably your best video so far! Thanks a lot for the huge amount of work!

[@marcoscarlomagno3065]

I cannot imagine the time and mental effort you spent to make this video. For each one of those frameworks you found out the way to make a full stack (scalable) application. Just to mention, I've tried Golang without any previous experience using Gin and it took me many days to finish the setup properly (without any ORM as you did). Awesome work Jeff :)

[@alexandrebove2333]

I had my first experience with golang, building a web app too, but I used Fiber and Arango and I tried it with Hasura too. Honestly, I nearly prefered it to any JS framework or Laravel which I had experience prior. the only thing I had a hard time with was doing a loadbalancer

[@MaulikParmar210]

Scalable is very relative term, not all of them are out of box scalable and also scalable in terms of what? You have to wire them according to usecase. At the end of the day, you need your app to serve desired load smoothly, regardless what's used inside or how it distributes it. Keep in mind that a single problem can have hundreds of solutions and different people will come up with different implementations.

[@sohn7767]

I can imagine him struggling 95% of his time googling rust stuff instead of writing rust

[@luiscossio48]

I feel comforted by Jeff also struggling with getting a working Rust web app

[@ctleans6326]

Same here, I'm convinced rust is like the final boss of all practical programming languages when it comes to making anything in it that works. It's a truly magical language. It has a magical way of making you feel stupid at every turn.

[@raffimolero64]

@@ctleans6326 it’s like a martial arts teacher. it will fuck you up and beat the shit out of you at every turn, but listen to his every instruction, learn strict discipline, and dedicate actual time in training, things just work. everything starts to make sense, including its complaints.

[@maxwellflitton3973]

Hey I'm the author of the Packt textbook Rust and web programming. I suggest you focus on handling the borrow checker, structs, and then traits. Web programming Rust frameworks are very reliant on traits. It's classic to implement a trait for middleware etc. This makes it a high entry point but once you get this, you'll actually be able to develop apps quicker than when you code in a language like Python. I've had over 5 years of python web programming experience and I can now code web apps in Rust faster than I can code in Python due to trait implementations. Also, the async for rust is amazing. Currently talking with O'Reilly to write a book on async rust

[@Cherryblossoms110]

Welp, I was hesitant to learn Ruby on Rails since I've never used it before but you're the guy I trust the most about this shit so onward I go

[@aislanarislou]

Dont deliver to others your own responsability for your own decisions in life !!!!

[@electricimpulsetoprogramming]

Dont deliver to others your own responsability for your own decisions in life !!!! te toca pia!

[@furo.v]

Yes, Ruby on Rails is way better than everything else. All other frameworks are toys in comparison.

[@bills1967]

If you can still find jobs with it but it is a lot less than in 2015 from what I heard.

[@RR-et6zp]

@@furo.v why?

[@BG-fo4si]

I love the fact how your videos are getting more and more funny and do not lose a bit from being informative. You are my favourite IT youtuber

[@naser_cs]

I used to roast Java a lot as a joke but when our company decided that our next app will be written in spring, I was fascinated on how the code just made more sense. It taught me discipline on how I wrote code. And I just love it.

[@vasiovasio]

The Best code is the code that you no need to write! From this perspective Java is obviously not a winner with their hundreds of hundreds lines for every even trivial thing, but for someone like you who Loved it, is the Only thing that matters and I'm sure it is Great! We all are so different and this is the salt of the Life! :)

[@MaryamMaqdisi]

Spring rocks. I used Django for months and loved it, but after trying out Spring I never turned back, while Java has a lot of boilerplate (and it shouldn't) I find Spring to be the most enjoyable experience for backend development I ever had

[@GuilhermeHenrique-tz5mn]

@@vasiovasio you would be surprise if you knew how much code you actually write with spring. It may have a lot of lines, but 95% of it is auto generated.

[@Quinteger]

@@MaryamMaqdisi Spring also works with Kotlin, while there are some corners to iron out I'd still recommend giving it a go

[@vasiovasio]

@@GuilhermeHenrique-tz5mn its good to know it! Laravel have CLI called Artisan that generate also a lot of boilerplate code and it's great. :)

[@Safeboot]

As a Laravel developer I feel proud to have a video where it's shown. :D

[@SamsonOng]

I second that!

[@itsankitbhusal]

What do you recommend me to learn laravel or Django. I know PHP well and python too.

[@ShailendraSharmaDark]

@@itsankitbhusal laravel will be easier to learn but django is fast compared to laravel, but if you want to develop api then you can learn FastAPI, it uses python

[@itsankitbhusal]

@@ShailendraSharmaDark I want to develop rest API and use it with react

[@coolcha]

@@ShailendraSharmaDark Any latest benchmarks between Laravel and Django? The benchmarks I could find are all old and there have been several improvements to speed on both frameworks.

[@utkarshkattishettar1803]

This is an amazing effort. Thank you for your work and research !

[@mikimaine]

There is one missing, "Building a web applciation with C++ "(TreeFrong or oatpp)

[@divad1196]

Or drogon / Lithium (the biggest/fastest as far as I know) There are plenty of C++ web framework, but none that feels really good to use in my opinion.. hope introspection in C++23 will help

[@_zetrax]

XD I think that will be reserved to "I built a simple web app... in 10 years"

[@heyy3028]

@@_zetrax hahahahaha

[@advanceringnewholder]

is there a web framework for assembly?

[@rubenedwinhuallaquispe8698]

I just remembered I spent 5 years of collegue learning C++ as the main language just to end up writting PHP for a living

[@MarthinusBosman]

I'd love to see a top 10 of JavaScript database integration libraries. Had to learn django for work and the whole admin interface was amazingly useful and extendable. Something I'd love to have for JS frameworks, e.g sveltekit

[@AmirIskandar]

I'm looking forward to this. Next.js would be my top Web Framework the day I know which database integration approach is the best

[@MarthinusBosman]

@@AmirIskandar exactly, the problem with all the frameworks is the workaround required for advanced frontend manipulation, the problem with JS frameworks is how unclear the data layer is. Just give me objects, relationships to other objects, and ways to do CRUD operations on them in an easy to use fashion. Django has all the others beat there.

[@rallisf1]

Jeff already mentioned Prisma, Sequelize is also fine but I'd take a serious look at supabase. It's not an ORM, but a full fledge firebase alternative. It's got its own integration libraries and postgres (that's what's under the hood) can pretty much replace mysql for any workload. plus you get an auth server, realtime db events and block storage.

[@h0ra88]

TypeORM its does the job for me, and it has a nice integration with NestJS. I've been using both for the last 3 years, i think you'll like it.

[@HansTheGeek]

I used Spring, Phoenix, Rails and a little asp by now and they all have their strengths and weaknesses. Personally i like Phoenix the best. Like elixir has heavy influences from ruby Phoenix has influences from Rails. I like to think of it as a functional highly scaleable version of ror. It is also by far the most pragmatic language and framework i know of.

[@cyrilchubenko2657]

I like Elixir and Phoenix very much, but unfortunately the language is too young to get all the attention it deserves

[@witchmorrow]

This must have taken soooooo much time and work. Another fantastic, funny and useful video, thank you!

[@ammaralbatayneh9024]

i love this kind of videos so much its really informative and it gives me a quick overview on how every web frameworks work and have

[@playfulpottery6399]

The transitions from framework to framework are great

[@ApolloSevan]

Phoenix was short and sweet! I was worried you were going to complain about language instillation because it can be a pain. Love Phoenix!

[@kinnormajumder9747]

I was in need for this... love you!

[@Maartz]

One particularly good feature of Phoenix is contexts. Rocket and Diesel are very good they are not async and Diesel doesn’t support sql check. I’d go for Actix and Sqlx. Nice to see a video about Vapor, a nice DSL is Swift2Html, which is way better than leaf.

[@randomizednamme]

Would definitely recommend Phoenix, you can save so much time in ops. Elixir makes it very easy to write concurrent code so you can totally skip job queues and redis and just use the language itself. The language looks like Ruby due to syntax but it’s very “no bullshit”, way lower in magic, and the best standard library I’ve ever seen.

[@greykeith]

yeah coming from a huge legacy rails codebase and going to phoenix was amazing. maybe rails is good for getting started but Elixir being functional, with phoenix, gets rid of a whole class of problems you might get from using a huge rails codebase, because of rails magic and OOP style

[@gopher256]

Any suggestions on where to start with Elixir?

[@TomNook.]

@@gopher256 the docs, like with anything

[@fadedlamp42]

@@TomNook. based

[@randomizednamme]

@@charlesm.2604 It's not that bad, I'm biased but I would say it's simpler than OOP. It's way different than languages like Haskell if that's what your experience has been. Always remember when you encounter a tricky technology: it was written by humans, for humans. You are capable of understanding it if you give yourself the chance.

[@okanyldrmop]

This video is amazing, I hope we will also see you create different APIs. Thanks for the content.

[@niksvisuals]

I am starting web development and understanding mvc the way you have taught us awesome, so many directories in my boilerplate makes so much sense now. Ps I am working on blockchain project.

[@dheirya]

Personally one of my favorite frameworks is Django because of the vast amount of documentation it has and the vast libraries has. I literally sometimes don't have to code new features, I just use a package. It makes it very easy to quickly develop an website.

[@danbo967]

Pretty much all frameworks/languages have a vast "package ecosystem". Rails has gems, Vapor has SPM, Rust has cargo, Javascript has NPM, etc.

[@dheirya]

​@@danbo967 yes, but I feel like django is really modular and popular. As a result of this modularity and popularity, there are a lot of packages that are very easy to integrate with existing projects. Maybe I'm wrong though- I don't really have any experience with the other frameworks; honestly the best framework is the one you know and understand the best :)

[@danbo967]

@@dheirya Django is popular but all language are easy to integrate. I would even argue some language are even slightly easier to integrate than Python because you don’t have to manually add the package to your file and declare the package in the middleware. Rails for example automatically adds packages to your project no need to register packages in the settings same with Javascript. PS: I am not talking about the best framework/language here. This is just some insight into other languages and frameworks. Personally I think that we shouldn’t be defensive with our tech stack because the beauty of software engineering is to take and implement good ideas regardless of language/framework.

[@dheirya]

@@danbo967 I do agree with you that there really is no "best" framework/language. Whatever works for you is the best framework really. Additionally, I can't comment on the easiness and packages that other frameworks have but for a beginner like me, django has great libraries and packages that can be easily shared through PIP and requirements.txt files. This is my own story but recently I wanted to add my own login with email functionality and I found three packages I could use. I tried all of them and one of them worked perfectly in my case. The point: All frameworks are good if you know what you're doing basically.

[@danbo967]

@@dheirya Definitely, my only beef with Django is that I don’t like that you have to manually add each app and package in your config/settings.py to include it into your project. Also it happens sometime that you have to pay attention to the order in which you add them to the “INSTALLED_APPS” or “MIDDLEWARE” lists. Also Django uses the MVVM pattern which isn’t as intuitive for me as the MVC pattern. But other than that Django is great.

[@manemobiili]

I keep coming back to this every few months, and depending on what i'm learning i see all the frameworks in a new light. First i was sold on gin Then i was sold on rails and phoenix And now i am interested in flutter and kotlin for mobile driven developement. Spring and Ktor look appealing at the time of writing 😊

[@carlt.8266]

I love you and I love to be alive in this day and age! So much freaking great content on the internet, because of people like you. Thank you so so much!!

[@SteveHazel]

wow that was a super good overview of em. i noooticed you started with rails :)

[@kislotka9717]

Good video, like this format! Can you make video about python FastApi? That's be interesting i think. Thanks for your work.

[@Inigoovd]

I think most big projects can be done quite nicely in almost all bigger frameworks. It's kind of preference at a certain point. Also once you master one framework completely, it's very hard to switch. E.g. re-learning how to do routing, caching, database modelling, session handling, form validation, file storage handling, emailing, tasks & queues, user authentication, hosting and deployment etc etc takes so much time.

[@murtadha96]

Wouldn't it be easier though? Since you understand the fundamental functionality.

[@RedempleMarcelo]

This is my favourite channel. I especially like it when you explain everything so nicely. I wish you a lot of success with the channel and happy life. ❤️

[@TrainingWithKona]

thoroughly entertaining and insightful, my good sir

[@leodanyswilberguerrerogrey2836]

Django ORM, migrations, signals, models and forms, mixins, are all amazing. With just four-five lines of code you can generate a CRUD. Maybe the template is the not that advance component, but still a great framework

[@bastienm347]

Worm, migrations, model and forms exists in all framework. Like java+spring, C# and PHP+Laravel for sure.

[@leodanyswilberguerrerogrey2836]

@@bastienm347 so what? did I say all that stuff are django exclusive. is not true that django templates are messy??

[@hakuna_matata_hakuna]

Someone will rewrite it I. JavaScript and make it perfect

[@thenightguy6816]

Damn it jeff, Now I wanna use all the frameworks for multiple projects instead of sticking to one.

[@danielalejandrocoronelberr8113]

Dude it was awesome!!! Need to enroll to any course made by you!! Greetings from Bolivia! So far I agree with you rails is magic, in fact rails is also considered as a frameworks of frameworks!

[@ferasnawafleh6836]

dude I swear this is the best content I've ever watched on KZbin

[@RyanMorey1]

Would love to see 100 seconds of BlitzJS - it’s a framework on top of NextJS that ties together Prisma and a few other “batteries” for a much more rails-like experience

[@davidkoffi985]

Idk what’s next… turboJS which is on top of blitzJS which is on top of nextJS which is on top of reactJS. TurboJS have 1,000 potential unicorn apps tht u just put a rand number and it spits out

[@surajkumar-gx6gf]

@@davidkoffi985 totally agreed

[@lgdevelops3755]

Whyyyyy

[@4cps777]

@@davidkoffi985 Was going to say that. The JS library ecosystem is broken in so many ways ngl

[@SirM0linarius]

Since I myself am a huge BlitzJS fan I can only approve.

[@KhoPhi]

I like how you say, "Batteries Included", and that's how I like my frameworks i.e Django for all things server-side and Angular for all things frontend

[@JuanTorres-jn4qu]

Nice video and the time to develop all the solutions must be fact to consider to start a comparison, also a table would be helpful to decide based in facts like time to build, performance, starting time, etc.

[@69k_gold]

Every extra minute he adds to the video duration he makes it more and more worth watching

[@rogue.ganker]

I've used half of these and Laravel by far is my favorite.

[@rcnhsuailsnyfiue2]

Agreed! Laravel’s ecosystem is incredible... Eloquent is amazing and makes me feel extremely productive using it. The whole Laravel experience is a real pleasure, and has helped seriously drive the modernisation of PHP.

[@fareezk]

Same with me.

[@alexnezhynsky9707]

Same. Lots of features baked in, and still it's intuitive to work with. Simple, elegant, not overwhelming. Great docs too

[@HyuLilium]

It has a terrible project structure... heavily dislike php

[@rcnhsuailsnyfiue2]

@@HyuLilium a feature-packed framework is bound to have a few more folders. I’ve worked with Laravel for 7 years and whilst it drops a bunch of folders in to keep things organised by default, you’re free to move, delete or restructure most of them however you like.

[@christopherkapic]

+1 for NextJS. I've never felt that a web framework was as intuitive as Next is, and I hope the project is solid into the future.

[@danbo967]

You should try Rails then. I learned Rails first and then moved to Python/Javascript but to be honest nothing has been as intuitive and easy/quick to build with as Rails. You can pick it up in a week if you already know a programming language. The scaffolding feature makes it super fast to build apps because it generates a model/controller/view with all CRUD operations/routes/tests and migration for your database with a single command.

[@ba8e]

Laughs in SvelteKit

[@kerodfresenbetgebremedhin1881]

@@danbo967 The beauty of next is that you will have to learn js and react, which means u r doubly empowering urself

[@danbo967]

@@kerodfresenbetgebremedhin1881 nextJS is for frontend. You can use nextJS/React with Rails as a backend. In terms of frontend it depends if you need the extra complexity in the front you could also just use vanilla server side templates combined with Russian doll caching to improve performance.

[@ThePandaGuitar]

Laughs in Remix

[@kevinstolle5684]

Great video!

[@fathirirhas3609]

I keep watching your videos to keep my passion in programming intact.

[@krome305]

This is a good content, the joke about your startup failure is not really based on your selected framework :) you can choose whatever you want and grow your stack/technology along the way, the truth is you won't be using MVC too much as your product/tech stack grows.

[@chizuru1999]

I just made a java rest api using spring boot. Gotta say its the best. Handled db and also a websocket sessions.

[@ankylosis751]

your love for code knows no boundary

[@jpcabana1]

Fast and simple as always. Thks man

[@n00bma5ter69]

I'd really recommend people give Ruby a go. It's a truly beautiful and well thought out language

[@OzzyTheGiant]

I would have done so, but unfortunately, job postings are continuously in decline and I'm at a point where I need to invest what little time I have left in as few languages as possible.

[@DerMichael]

I think I will stick to Python for data science and small scripts, so before learning Ruby for web development, I think I would rather use Flask or Django.

[@CharlesBLim]

@@DerMichael you better stick with Python, and go for Django.. I like Laravel and RoR but I'm more comfortable doing long hours work with Django it's easy to use (for me).

[@user-cf2pl9uy5k]

What if you give Go a ruby?

[@matte.309]

@@user-cf2pl9uy5k damn, you beat me to it. 🤣

[@switzerland]

As a rails developer having an excursion to nuxt3 I agree fully. Everything is so painfull on the other sides.

[@gleb.ignatev]

Ktor is really neat, Kotlin's DSLs make everything structured and elegant.

[@TheInternalNet]

I learned more in the first 5 minutes of your video than the last 5+ years of studying coding on and off. Thank you

[@Stoney_Eagle]

I fell in love with laravel when I got started at version 6, been using react for a wile and just got back and it's like coming home. Nothing can't beat the Eloquent ORM! But laravel doesn't come with a database, just the universal ORM 😊

[@sahil_parmar]

Yes when you work with laravel. Other frameworks looks kinda frustrating to you. Laravel is love.

[@LAKD]

Honestly, it's by for the best framework I've worked with so far. It's easy to use, the documentation is fenominal and working with databases is not a Hassel. Also if you implement a frontend framework, that's easy too

[@duddyrosenberg5701]

I use laravel for everything, and 2 things I can point out that are very good. 1, the docs is super clear can be read by a 4 year old. 2, I’m slowly refactoring my apps to spa and with other frameworks I would have to do it all at once, with laravel I can do one component at a time etc

[@TacZhomas]

thank you for actually talking fast enough. most dev channels speak so slowly lol

[@marslogics]

That nodejs frameworks comparison promise, really excited for it. Throw in some deno frameworks too,. within that if possible.

[@kurtm9744]

So happy to see Ruby on Rails getting the attention it deserves again

[@vinniv6806]

nope, its pretty bad nowadays.

[@TheJackTheLion]

@@vinniv6806 Everyone has an opinion, only difference is the person who talks trash about someone else's. Think about that.

[@Ihavetoreturnsomevideotapes]

dead framework

[@Ihavetoreturnsomevideotapes]

@@TheJackTheLion L + RATIO + U FELL OFF

[@TheJackTheLion]

@@Ihavetoreturnsomevideotapes I mean that’s usually what someone says when they are not competent enough to use something.

[@unknownlordd]

I always find it sad how a lovely fun and easy language like Ruby is so underrated yet it has a giant beast like Rails and its magic, i just wish the language itself was famous for things other than web

[@MaryamMaqdisi]

Amen (... pun non intended)

[@mikopiko]

Totally agree, Ruby shines when it comes to metaprogramming aswell but that could also lead to your death since there are hundreds of different ways to do the same thing (which I love about it).

[@unknownlordd]

@@mikopiko def my favourite part and you don't need to be a programming wizard to figure out the multiple ways to achieve the same thing it's just out there

[@navjotsingh2251]

Ruby is very popular in the cybersecurity world, look at metasploit which uses ruby to allow you to do scripts and work with the exploits it provides.

[@kholbekj]

I think ruby's curse is python. Not because python is better, but because python changed the metrics upon which people judge languages. The most important thing is now whether it can be learned in an afternoon, and used by someone who doesn't understand it well, and ruby doesn't try to be any of those things - it appreciates that some people will have to spend a lot of time with a language, and the best thing to optimize in that situation is not ease of learning, but pleasantness to use once proficient. Few languages come close to ruby on that.

[@kimeiga]

So much work for one video; hat's off Jeff!

[@shinobi1975]

Gin. I finally found a framework that makes me learn backend without being overwhelmed by the directory structure.

[@rng1160]

Would love to see flask here. Same minimalism as gin I think, but more documentation / libraries to choose from

[@deepakpune1]

loved flask, very flexible and easy

[@JihadChess]

I wish he had put Flask in the video. Very minimal and simple and still used by many companies.

[@GAGONMYCOREY]

Isn't flask more of middleware? Been a while since I used it

[@rng1160]

@@GAGONMYCOREY. I suppose you mean packages that use flask to push part of their functionality to the web? Like rq 's dashboard or plotly interactive features? Flask can do that and AFAIK it is just as well suited to a full scale web app.

[@RougeCognito]

@@GAGONMYCOREY flask is whatever you want it to be, thats the beauty of microframeworks.

[@prevv3366]

Same here, I had a hard time building my backend with Rocket and then I switched to Axum, much simpler.

[@prevv3366]

Echo is nice too

[@kemijarks]

Kudos for this video and thank you for doing this

[@OzzyTheGiant]

Nowadays my go to frameworks are Fiber (Go), Nest.js, Django, and ASP.NET 6, with Laravel on the side in case I need to run something on a shared server.

[@yeicore]

Finally, a video talking a bit about Elixir. An amazing language with an amazing web dev framework! I truly think it can become the next RoR

[@vaylx2253]

Can you expand on that a bit?

[@yeicore]

@@vaylx2253 well, elixir is a language made to handle concurrency very easily (it was made with this in mind) and can handle real time without problems. Phoenix is basically RoR but hella fast and light, with all the benefits of Elixir. You can build a great backend product in almost no time

[@vaylx2253]

@@yeicore thanks for the insight.

[@kam1234554321]

Have fun debugging it without a proper debugger and tens of functions in modules due to pattern matching. I worked in a project with >100k LoC. Never again, I'm switching back to Java

[@yeicore]

@@kam1234554321 well, it's functional programming, so having tons and tons of functions is normal, just as having tons and tons of classes is normal in java or any OOP language

[@nothappyz]

Maybe the best framework was the friends we made along the way

[@hustleeveryday9132]

Great video man!

[@vekzdran]

Jeff, its EF Core. :D Proud that I do dotnet.

[@itsameandrea]

Rails the 🐐! In all seriousness. I started working with rails about 10 years ago and it was a total game changer. I always loved working with it, however, the new shiny JS frameworks were attractive and I switched to a JS-based approach for a lot of my projects. Since the team released hotwire I rediscovered my love for rails. It's so much faster to get stuff done and the fact that is super opinionated, makes it very easy to get people up to speed with the code base. Long live 🚂!

[@YuriG03042]

I love the tiny train emoji at the end to celebrate the stack hahaha

[@user-wc1sm8cj8s]

I ♥️ Elixir - Phoenix. It's an underrated tech in the industry that not many people know. It's the tech I said I'll learn, but too lazy to do, procrastinating everyday that a quarter of the year already past, it's still on my to learn list.

[@prophetjamz94]

its 100% worth your time, trust me

[@surajkumar-gx6gf]

@@prophetjamz94 I made a video on Ruby on rails in 💯 seconds: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n37Pdappa5Jgi9E I bet it is 110% worth your time

[@randomizednamme]

It’s so underrated, so powerful, simple and without bullshit. The main drawback I’ve found is that there isn’t a good authentication solution. But the framework drives you towards a very maintainable architecture even as your app grows and you need to scale horizontally; but you probably won’t even need to because a single node can handle millions of connections.

[@spongechameleon6940]

I forget what they're called in elixir but doesn't every green thread get its own dedicated part of heap memory? Compared to go where all the green threads (or "goroutines") share heap? If true i think that would be a big advantage for memory safety and avoiding data races

[@prophetjamz94]

@@spongechameleon6940 I'm not an expert but my understanding is that it handles concurrency through individual independent "processes" where yes they don't share memory but enable the passing of messages with data to handle "The Actor Model". I believe elixir documentations specifically state that the OTP model doesn't use threads. Unless I misunderstood your question

[@swrn90]

I also have tried many mvc frameworks but Grails still by far is the best when it comes to developer experience

[@dank56]

LFG Jeff 🚀. Quality content as always.

[@bassebajs]

This has nothing to do with the video but I just wanted to share with you guys that I signed a contract yesterday for my first ever programming job as a Frontend dev! So happy right now :)

[@confusedswede1438]

🥳🎉

[@joselgraterol]

wish you all the best!

[@icarojose6316]

My first job paid me 70k a year for me with no professional experience but I had created many complex projects in my GitHub

[@acoupleofschoes]

If you're going to include Gin, you should also mention Flask and FastAPI, both using Python. Both are minimal, build-as-you-go, semi-frameworks that are quite easy to use to for simple apps.

[@deidyomega]

I love flask so much.

[@luizricardocascaldi7711]

FastAPI is by far one of the most impressive frameworks in town! Love it!

[@karammohammed3858]

flask is my fav framework it is minimal yet so powerful and flexable

[@bakchod_coder]

sinatra in ruby

[@lukesanders2827]

Had the same thought. I use exclusively Gin or Flask right now depending on the project. I really prefer having minimal structure so I can choose how to set everything up myself

[@miss_q6917]

Great video! Do you have a Github repo or point of reference to where we can build these as well?

[@ankk98]

Most of us have very limited view based on our experience with the only framework we have experience with. This video helps us come out of the 'well' and appreciate other frameworks.

[@retzthephoenix]

I actually figured out the best stack that works for me and it's based on the requirements: NextJS: so much UI, little backend Django: so much backend, little UI React + Djangorestframework : so much everything

[@naufalnasrullah6965]

Are react + django bad? I'm beginner and don't know :(

[@bluzter]

True that. I am surprised you are the only one I found who mentioned these. Django + NextJS is the best stack to get up and running quickly IMO.

[@angrysnek4445]

Rails is the best especially for small apps. I learned it in a coding bootcamp and built a few apps with it. At work, we use spring in which i have a love/hate relationship with. Spring can be really simple and way overcomplicated all at the same time. Its hard to explain

[@amineabdz]

That's literally Java, the good thing is that the more complex the project gets, the less "the curve of complexity rises" when using Java, if that makes any sense.

[@Voidstroyer]

You should definitely give Phoenix a try then. It is great for both small and large apps because of the features of the language itself.

[@arrrryyy]

Right small web apps. Fir scalable, robust apps which later can be done on mobile c# is best.

[@LoneIgadzra]

Yes it is hard to explain, isn't it? Lots of subtle little things to get wrong despite the code appearing simple. For me, Hibernate is the chief culprit. I would give anything for the project I am working on not to have chosen it. But from a larger standpoint, annotation based coding gives me the heebies. It's like a dynamic language but somehow worse and less predictable. It sacrifices all the advantages of Java. And from an even larger standpoint, it is frequently impossible to find solutions for common web app issues. I know people are using spring to build huge enterprise crap, but from what I can Google it's only toy apps, and fixing N+1 queries is like rocket science to these people.

[@kholbekj]

@@arrrryyy I think Shopify has more than demonstrated that Rails apps do not have to be small at all.

[@blakeporter9488]

Very awesome and informative video. Covered just about all the languages I know/am getting to know. Quick question, how did you get the icons for your folders to represent the purpose of said folders. Me likey.

[@itskrox-johnochuro]

check out material icons extension on vs code

[@LifeTooning]

Dude, your videos are so good.

[@OggerFN]

Great video. I liked the java, go and swift ones the most from what I have seen although I am biased as I use Spring lol

[@josephcro2138]

I also use spring. I ask myself every day if I made the biggest mistake of my life

[@antonlee0]

Is benchmark coming next? Now when you have these apps with same functionality would be nice to see how they behave on same hardware in terms of cpu, memory usage and how many concurrent connections they can handle.

[@AnIndianify]

Yup we desperately need that benchmark video comparing different framework in terms of throughput.

[@qwerasdfhjkio]

damn bro you went really in depth with ktor 0.0

[@lukesanders2827]

I'm still a n00b dev, so I haven't worked with many different frameworks yet but I really like Flask and Gin because I am not building huge apps yet and both of those let me have a lot of freedom in how I set up the project functionality

[@Thomas-jj1ev]

Great comparison. Personally, had the best DX with PHP + Laravel, and looks very pleasing. Would like to see something similar for Go somewhen. Don't care about the other languages 😅