I was very interested in Adonis and decided to try it out. I scafolded a project using it and the installation kept on going. That revealed the state of the project and I never touched it again.
This is mentioned in the article. The problem is that based on my experience, most JS devs have never heard of it, and I've personally never heard of it being used anywhere.
It's awful. It's a cheap copy of laravel in typescript. It adds no value on top of it. The thing is, a laravel or rails for JavaScript needs to feel at home in the js land. That requires original thinking which is quite limited in the js space because the folks coming into the js ecosystem are very much into fads.
