Let's pretend you're working at a startup to build the next Airbnb. Your team is very small, it's just you and maybe 1-2 other developers. You need to build an application with the following requirements/assumptions:
- User facing "CRUD"
- 10+ domain models (eg. House, Guest, Cart, Booking, etc)
- Lots of forms w/ custom validation
- Pagination so you can display 1k+ records in tables/infinite-scroll
- Some areas of rich interactivity (eg. Host availability calendar) but mostly presentational UI / forms
- Admin panel
- Background jobs / tasks
- Scheduled - Run specific job at point in future (eg. Remind user in 3 months about upcoming trip)
- Recurring - Run cron jobs for repetitive tasks (eg. Run daily report at midnight)
- Emails / Notifications
- 10+ custom email templates (booking confirmation, upcoming trip reminder, etc.)
- Usually sent via background job
- File uploads / storage (eg. Users upload pictures of house)
- Auth
- Users login to book
- Hosts login to manage their home listings
- Testing
- Primarily integration / e2e tests of core flows
You need to choose a framework:
- Laravel (v9)
- Rails (v7)
- Django (v4)
- Phoenix (v1.6)
Which framework do you choose?
Assume your team knows each framework equally well. Which one allows you to start quickly and still be maintainable 2-3 years down the road while continually adding new features?
Assume your team knows each framework equally well. Which one allows you to start quickly and still be maintainable 2-3 years down the road while continually adding new features?