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Bootsnap

Boot large ruby/rails apps faster, by Shopify
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What is Bootsnap?

Bootsnap is a library that plugs into a number of Ruby and (optionally) ActiveSupport and YAML methods to optimize and cache expensive computations.
Bootsnap is a tool in the Ruby Utilities category of a tech stack.
Bootsnap is an open source tool with 2.6K GitHub stars and 178 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Bootsnap's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Bootsnap?

Companies
23 companies reportedly use Bootsnap in their tech stacks, including Shopify, BikeRoar Web, and Rails-pangu.

Developers
62 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Bootsnap.

Bootsnap Integrations

Bootsnap Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Bootsnap?
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Rails Spring
Spring is a Rails application preloader. It speeds up development by keeping your application running in the background so you don't need to boot it every time you run a test, rake task or migration.
RubyGems
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Turbolinks
Turbolinks makes navigating your web application faster. Get the performance benefits of a single-page application without the added complexity of a client-side JavaScript framework. Use HTML to render your views on the server side and link
Active Admin
Active Admin is a Ruby on Rails framework for creating elegant backends for website administration.
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Bootsnap's Followers
26 developers follow Bootsnap to keep up with related blogs and decisions.