🆚 Next.js vs. Ruby on Rails

📈 Ruby on Rails is noticeably more popular than Next.js.
🌎 Ruby on Rails is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and India.
🌎 Next.js is more popular in Brazil, Russia, and Sweden.

Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Next.js

Ruby on Rails

Type

Frontend framework

Backend framework

About

Next.js is a React framework for building full-stack web applications that offers server-side rendering, static site generation, file-based routing, and built-in API routes.

It also supports incremental static regeneration (ISR) to update static pages without full rebuilds, automatic image optimization, fast refresh during development, and built-in TypeScript support.

Ruby on Rails is a full-stack web application framework that provides the tools needed to build database-driven applications using the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern.

It emphasizes a standardized project structure and naming, follows DRY ("don't repeat yourself") and "convention over configuration" principles, includes the Active Record ORM for database interaction, a built-in asset pipeline for managing CSS and JavaScript, and an integrated testing framework.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Website

nextjs.org #64,544

rubyonrails.org #180,446

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Ruby on Rails backend framework is 1.9 times more popular than Next.js.

Total websites

Market share

Backend Frameworks

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Ruby on Rails is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and India, while Next.js is more popular in Brazil, Russia, and Sweden.

United States

United Kingdom

India

Germany

Australia

Netherlands

Japan

France

Canada

Brazil

Awards

🥇 Most popular in Finland in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Iceland in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Estonia in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Mongolia in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Tunisia in the Backend Frameworks category.

🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in France in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in Pakistan in the Backend Frameworks category.
🥇 Most popular in New Zealand in the Backend Frameworks category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Ruby on Rails is more popular among sites focused on online shopping, marketing and merchandising, and fashion and beauty, while Next.js is more commonly used on business, Internet services, and entertainment sites.

Online Shopping

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Fashion/Beauty

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Entertainment

Blogs/Wiki

Travel

Sports

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#16

#23

#47

#56

#61

Name

Rank

#13

#49

#51

#76

#134