Ask HN: Building with Rails-API and Next.js

by luizsantana on 8/5/2024, 3:26:29 PM with 1 comments
In order to deal with my productivity I decided to build my own email client with Rails-API and next.js front-end.

All in all, the experience was very nice. The product is live and it is pretty useful.

But to migrate from Rail-API to use hotwire, is this an option? Seems pretty hard. Not to mention away moving from Next.js.

Did anyone went through that? Any good strategies for that?

  • by whatnotests2 on 8/5/2024, 4:20:43 PM

    A lateral move, maybe, but have you taken a good look at Sveltekit?

    Specifically, Sveltekit + drizzle-orm + zod + SuperForms. It works pretty well, IMO.

    Still, nothing comes close to the out-of-the-box functionality which Rails offers.