Is switching from ROR to Angular and Node JS worth it?

ROR Development

You are recommended to integrate Angular JS with rails. Rails has a nice asset pipeline which can be used to structure your Angular JS app. Rails is perfect and agile, and GitHub is scaling Rails well with Unicorn server, so scaling should not be an issue in any case. Some other examples include Housing.com, Airnb, Basecamp, Groupon, Twitter etc. All of them have million user bases. Node.js developers are one of the best kinds to integrate your work and development along with necessary updates.

Is switching worth?

1.    Rails is the best and node community is not that matured. It does not sound wise to switch because over time if you come up with any problems, it may be possible that Rails community can tackle it. Since Node is a recent work, their Codebase is not that matured as Rails.

2.    You may also take a look at the Service Oriented Architecture. You can just decouple the app if your developer really wants to work in Node. If you want to expand your app by proving comment facility, make it’s own database, new Express app and expose the jSON data over HTTP so that Angular + Rails app can pick it up or you can use Rails to request that data using Net :: HTTP or Request gem.

3.    It is a big NO to switch without any reason regardless of technology.  If it becoming difficult to maintain or add new features it’s because the current code base is poorly written and rewrite it in new technology with the same developers will always make it worse for obvious reasons. If they really care about it they should slowly refactor, adding better tests, replacing technical debts for better coding and techniques.

4.    For the worth, it depends on your development and if they are way more productive with angular and node. It actually takes about 4-6 weeks to write an application. Developing towards a moving target VS developing towards a known product are radically different tasks.

It depends highly on the constrains of the projects and resources available, which determine the best solution. But NO, you should not switch for No reason unless technology comes into play. Ruby on Rails is actively developed and improved, and it has a thriving community. So, it would be a complete waste to switch, especially if what you have is robust.

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