Rackless, Inc.

Hello Mahesh! Your question comparing SauceLabs and BrowserStack was the same question we just asked ourselves this week. Our specific use case was that we needed to test multiple web browsers on different operating systems (i.e. Safari on a MacBook, Chrome on Windows). We recommend you expand your options to also include LambdaTest.

After comparing BrowserStack, SauceLabs, and LambdaTest, we chose LambdaTest. LambdaTesting's pricing is hard to beat and they offer so many additional features like automation testing we can incorporate into our workflow as we grow with them.

We have used BrowserStack in the past but Lambda's pricing and user experience led us to choose them as our official testing tool at Rackless. We're not familiar with Experitest so we're unable to comment directly on them. We will, however, keep an eye on them in the future. We do notice Experitest was recently acquired which does give us pause since that could mean uncertainty with regards to features, availability, pricing, and more in the near future.

You can read more about why we selected LambdaTest at https://rackless.com/cross-browser-testing-for-your-web-app

We recommend Laravel over Ruby on Rails (Ruby) and Express.js (JavaScript/Node.js). We chose Laravel ourselves for our own internal software project, recently after comparing these same 3 software frameworks. In selecting Laravel, we chose to build our app using the software language PHP. PHP has the largest market share of all the web-based software languages (close to 80% of all websites use PHP). Also, Laravel is the fastest-growing software framework based on PHP making it a wise choice.

We also plan to integrate WordPress and WooCommerce later with our Laravel web-app. WordPress and WooCommerce like Laravel are all built using PHP. WordPress is the most popular Content Management System in the world. This will allow us to build out the front-end marketing website in WordPress. Also, we plan to offer subscriptions and sell products. For this, we will use WooCommerce. WooCommerce is the most used e-commerce platform in the world. We’ll be able to use our same Laravel developers to extend our app to WordPress and WooCommerce. By standardizing on PHP, we’ll be able to use the same software developers on all 3 platforms. PHP’s large market share will be an asset to us as we start recruiting talented software developers.

Lastly, we are gaining access to a fast-growing and awesome community that supports Laravel. Before we made our decision, I personally met Laravel’s founder Taylor Otwell along with several of his team members. After meeting with the Laravel team at Laracon US in New York City and learning more about the direction they are going with the framework, we’re confident we made the right decision.

To read the longer version of this answer where we go into more detail behind our recommendation, visit https://rackless.com/laravel-rails-expressjs