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Pros of Play
- Scala81
- Web-friendly architecture55
- Built on akka55
- Stateless50
- High-scalable47
- Fast46
- Open source40
- Java34
- High velocity27
- Fun24
- Lightweight9
- Non-blocking io8
- Developer friendly6
- Simple template engine5
- Scalability4
- Pure love3
- Resource efficient2
Pros of Rails
- Rapid development856
- Great gems652
- Great community606
- Convention over configuration484
- Mvc417
- Great for web348
- Beautiful code343
- Open source310
- Great libraries270
- Active record261
- Elegant108
- Easy to learn90
- Easy Database Migrations88
- Makes you happy82
- Free75
- Great routing62
- Has everything you need to get the job done54
- Great Data Modeling41
- MVC - Easy to start on38
- Beautiful38
- Easy setup35
- Great caching26
- Ultra rapid development time25
- It's super easy22
- Great Resources17
- Easy to build mockups that work16
- Less Boilerplate14
- Developer Friendly7
- API Development7
- Great documentation6
- Easy REST API creation5
- Quick5
- Intuitive4
- Great language4
- Haml and sass4
- Easy to learn, use, improvise and update4
- Metaprogramming2
- It works2
- Jet packs come standard2
- Easy and fast2
- Legacy2
- It's intuitive1
- Convention over configuration1
- Easy Testing1
- Cancan1
Pros of Trailblazer
- Trailblazer allows creating sane, large apps in Rails5
- Separates business logic from framework3
- Sound Software Architecture principals2
- Improves maintainability2
- Makes Rails better1
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Cons of Play
Cons of Rails
Cons of Trailblazer
Cons of Play
- Evolves fast, keep up with releases3
- Unnecessarily complicated1
Cons of Rails
- Too much "magic" (hidden behavior)24
- Poor raw performance14
- Asset system is too primitive and outdated12
- Heavy use of mixins6
- Bloat in models6
- Very Very slow4
Cons of Trailblazer
- Hasn't been on Thoughtworks radar since 20141
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What is Play?
Play Framework makes it easy to build web applications with Java & Scala. Play is based on a lightweight, stateless, web-friendly architecture. Built on Akka, Play provides predictable and minimal resource consumption (CPU, memory, threads) for highly-scalable applications.
What is Rails?
Rails is a web-application framework that includes everything needed to create database-backed web applications according to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.
What is Trailblazer?
Trailblazer is a thin layer on top of Rails. It gently enforces encapsulation, an intuitive code structure and gives you an object-oriented architecture. In a nutshell: Trailblazer makes you write logicless models that purely act as data objects, don't contain callbacks, nested attributes, validations or domain logic. It removes bulky controllers and strong_parameters by supplying additional layers to hold that code and completely replaces helpers.
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What are some alternatives to Play, Rails, and Trailblazer?
Spring
A key element of Spring is infrastructural support at the application level: Spring focuses on the "plumbing" of enterprise applications so that teams can focus on application-level business logic, without unnecessary ties to specific deployment environments.
Spring Boot
Spring Boot makes it easy to create stand-alone, production-grade Spring based Applications that you can "just run". We take an opinionated view of the Spring platform and third-party libraries so you can get started with minimum fuss. Most Spring Boot applications need very little Spring configuration.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.