Kinda, but not really. There are still lots of parts you'll have to implement yourself if you want to create a CRUD app. The mainly focus on the frontend part with the help from the backend.
Combine next.js with https://blitzjs.com/ and you'll have something that looks like rails.
To throw another in the ring, I recently stumbled on https://github.com/t3-oss/create-t3-app. Lots of buzzword tech in there, but the setup looks very interesting.
From what I understand Blitz is their own implementation of tRPC, their own Auth system, Prisma and Typescript support. Blitz is also more of a toolkit that wraps around NextJS currently, but later on Remix, Svelte and Vue.
In future (probably in '23 and post 1.0) some things that may be coming are:
- backend functionality ala NestJS
- form component library
- permissions (rbac) library
- file upload library
- and a bunch of other stuff I'm forgetting right now.
No. It's been awhile since I played around with it, but it's a front end framework that depends on react, that's really good at generating static pages
Yes, it really is. Startups these days aren't using traditional rails anymore as much as either full-stack typescript w/ React (a la Next.js) or Next to make SPA and hitting a more full-featured REST API.
There is currently a lot of cutting edge engineering focused on the Typescript ecosystem (Vercel, Cloudflare, Deno, etc) vastly outpacing things being done around Rails, Django, PHP, etc.
