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 179 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Bootsnap's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Bootsnap?
Companies
24 companies reportedly use Bootsnap in their tech stacks, including Shopify, BikeRoar Web, and Rails-pangu.
Developers
63 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.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
