Backend

Javascript still needs its Rails/Django equivalent. Next.js has empowered a bunch of frontend devs to build fullstack applications, but there’s a ton of footguns and the flexibility still has people floundering in problems long-solved by other frameworks.

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RedwoodJS has gotten the closest to this. Have you tried it?

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I have tried redwood extensively, I liked a lot of its usability features, it still doesn't hold a candle to the dev experience (and operational/management experience) of Django+graphene backend.

Full-stack digital product consultant @ BoundCorp.net - eng @daylight

I have also tried redwood. I think it's pretty close, I like that it is very opinionated. One of the biggest problems in Node ecosystem is no one has really figured out the ORM/migration experience for production applications built by a team. Prisma is very promising.

And yes @leewardbound, django admin is severely underrated. Nothing even close in Nodeland.

I would look at Drizzle, too (note: only second-hand experience, haven't used it)