A few years ago I booked a hotel suite through Booking.com for a convention, about six months in advance and for a group of friends.
About an hour before I checked in I got a message from Booking.com saying my reservation had been canceled. I called them and they said the hotel had canceled the reservation. They attempted to find another hotel upon request but there wasn’t one that would fit our group within 45 minutes of the convention center (the original was a block away).
Without many options, I showed up to the hotel to attempt to check in anyway. They told me Booking.com had canceled it several weeks prior. I denied any knowledge of the reservation being canceled and we got our room with little issue.
I’m not sure what was going on, but I’ve never used them since.
I work together with my team and I socialize IRL with friends, family, or sometimes coworkers essentially every day of the week. I’ve been fully remote since 2018. Your comment makes no sense to me.
Also, likes commuting? You can listen to your podcast anywhere.
If you just need to host a static page, then sure something like Express is a much better fit. But most web applications have at least some if not all of the following:
- Auth, sessions, secure cookie handling, etc.
- DB interaction
- View templates, layouts, etc.
- SPA-like interactivity
- Form handling & validation
- File uploads
- Asset handling
- Emails
- Background jobs
- Security (CSRF, XSS, SQL injection, etc.)
- Logging
- Internationalization
- Testing
- Real-time functionality
With Node/Express, you're either searching for other people's libraries to use and integrate, which aren't guaranteed to synergize, or writing it yourself. You have all of that baked into Rails, tucked away neatly so you only have to write and focus on what matters. You also have an opinionated architecture so you know exactly where all the custom business logic should go.
I think if you have extremely simple requirements, or you're at a stage where you want to learn all these things by doing it yourself, it would make sense not to use Rails. But if you want to focus on delivering value ASAP, Rails (or similar frameworks like Django) are for sure the way to go.