It’s looking more and more like I’ll be using Laravel in preference to Rails, Django, and Masonite. Maybe Laravel isn’t ‘better’ from every point of view, but it seems ‘better’ enough for me.

Ruby on Rails is well known for its philosophy of convention over configuration. And there are definitely benefits to that approach. But are there also significant disadvantages?

Ruby on Rails, Laravel, and Django are the heavy-hitters in full-stack web development frameworks written in Ruby, PHP, and Python, respectively. Rails has been around since 2004, Laravel since 2011, and Django since 2005. I recently came across Masonite (released in 2018) and had to look into it.

A simple (I thought) desire to add a Stack Overflow icon, and link to my account there, in this blog’s footer sent me looking for a different, but still uncomplicated theme. Soon, I was off in the weeds. And I said I wouldn’t…