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Rails 6 API with React frontend, Postgres database, hosted on Heroku.

I've been using some version of this stack for different projects, across companies, for several years and it's an absolute joy. It's only gotten more refined and streamlined over the years.

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Nice! How is the Rails API? I've hears great things about the MVC framework but not as much about using it as an API. Any major drawbacks?

Admittedly I don't have many alternates to compare to, but it's wonderful. It's essentially the best parts of Rails MVC (M and C), which gives just enough out of the box (ActiveStorage for attachment management, ActiveJob for background jobs, ActiveRecord for ORM, ActionMailer for emails) to allow developers to focus on writing business logic without getting bogged down with some of the lower level implementation details, while also remaining flexible. Excellent framework coupled with a beautiful language (ruby).

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