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Honest question. What technology are people enjoying on the server-side with sites built in React or Angular? I've seen some of these done with Rails, and some done with Node, neither of which I personally enjoy a whole lot. (Note, I'm not making an argument that either are BAD - just that I don't really like working with them). I'm curious to hear what other people are having success with in production.

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Scala and c#. Great tooling, static typing, functional and OO paradigms covered, fast (Scala runs fast once complied), flexible with tons of existing code already out there to be used or learned from.

I have no complaints about C# and Webapi. Well, "no complaints" isn't exactly right but I like it.

Django has always been relatively pleasant for me to develop in. Flask has been okay too.

I almost learned Rails in 2007 when it was at the peak of its hype cycle but after reading a series of (not very well publicized) tirades about pain that Rails' magic caused I learned Django instead.

I think node is at the peak of its hype cycle right now.

Node.js, it's a great fit because it doesn't try to be much more than a thin framework for web services. The value of code JS sharing between server and client is a bit overblown imho, but sharing same language skills is nice.

Elixir's Phoenix:

https://dockyard.com/blog/2015/11/18/phoenix-is-not-rails

not production ready but will be soon : asp.net core. If you want something like Rails with a statically typed language like C#, that's you best bet.

Pheonix looks promising. It's basically Erlang on Rails.

Or Rails on Erlang (even though I see what you did there).

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