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Ask HN: What's a batteries-included framework that's React-first?

by vimota on 4/17/24, 5:47 PM with 11 comments

What's the closest thing to Rails, Laravel or Django but works really well with React or Svelte like Nextjs?

Doesn't seem like it exists - why not? React/Svelte clearly won on the frontend, but nextjs leaves a lot to be desired on the full stack DX. I'm looking for something more opinionated and full-featured like the traditional frameworks but that has first class support for modern frontend.

  • by hot_town on 4/18/24, 1:39 PM

    What you're looking for is Wasp -- https://wasp-lang.dev

    It's a true full-stack framework and even bills itself as a "Rails-like fullstack framework for React, NodeJS, & Prisma"

    It manages all the boilerplatey stuff for you like Auth, Routes, Jobs, TypeSafety, Email sending, Deployments

  • by dudus on 4/17/24, 6:17 PM

    I really like Astro and Quik.

    If you want to take a step further start from a template like astrowind.

    It's opinionated performant and works really well with react, Svelte, or any other fe framework. You can even mix and match them.

    But for what you are looking for you are better served by combining it with firebase or a firebase clone.

  • by dudboi on 4/17/24, 5:56 PM

    Nextjs feels like the de facto framework. Throw on Prisma and you should be all set. When you say it leaves a lot to be desired, what specifically do you think is lacking?

  • by meiraleal on 4/18/24, 1:04 PM

    It is node.js. You compose it with the libraries you want. No fullstack NodeJS backend got enough traction to be a name the community recommend.

  • by vimota on 4/17/24, 5:48 PM

    inertiajs.com is one interesting approach to solving this by making React work somewhat natively in Rails/Laravel/Django - are there others?

  • by JLCarveth on 4/17/24, 6:04 PM

    Deno's Fresh uses Preact