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by danso 4200 days ago
The phrase "Rails of javascript" doesn't make sense to me. What exactly is Rails...er...the "Rails of"? I'm assuming you mean something analogous to, "Rails is to full stack web-development as X is to JavaScript"...but that doesn't make any sense. Web development is a profession. JavaScript is a language. Maybe you're thinking that Rails is to back-end development as Something is to front-end development? But that doesn't make a lot of sense either, as modern Rails is pretty entwined into modern front-end development.

So I don't really know what to tell you, except that you probably have the wrong idea about JavaScript, and so the best recommendation is, as others have said, to work without a framework (other than jQuery, of course) until you understand what JS's role is in web development.

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Rails is the "Rails of" Ruby. Rails is a framework. Ruby is a language.

In analogy form, I think his question is:

Ruby::Rails

Javascript::???