What is Bootsnap?
Bootsnap is a library that plugs into a number of Ruby and (optionally) ActiveSupport and YAML methods to optimize and cache expensive computations.
Bootsnap is a tool in the Ruby Utilities category of a tech stack.
Bootsnap is an open source tool with 2.6K GitHub stars and 172 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Bootsnap's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Bootsnap?
Companies
19 companies reportedly use Bootsnap in their tech stacks, including Shopify, BikeRoar Web, and Rails-pangu.
Developers
33 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Bootsnap.
Bootsnap Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Bootsnap?
Spring
A key element of Spring is infrastructural support at the application level: Spring focuses on the "plumbing" of enterprise applications so that teams can focus on application-level business logic, without unnecessary ties to specific deployment environments.
Rails Spring
Spring is a Rails application preloader. It speeds up development by keeping your application running in the background so you don't need to boot it every time you run a test, rake task or migration.
Turbolinks
Turbolinks makes navigating your web application faster. Get the performance benefits of a single-page application without the added complexity of a client-side JavaScript framework. Use HTML to render your views on the server side and link
Active Admin
Active Admin is a Ruby on Rails framework for creating elegant backends for website administration.
StimulusReflex
It is an exciting new way to build modern, reactive, real-time apps with Ruby on Rails.
It eliminates the complexity imposed by full-stack frontend frameworks. And, it's fast.
It works seamlessly with the Rails tooling you already know and love.
