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Ask HN: What stack you use for web app?

14 points by bryk 9y ago

mortyeriksen 9y ago
Check out Enonic XP - https://enonic.com https://enonic.com. Runs in any cloud and you can build your server side logic in Javascript. Embedded NoSQL, search engine, identity and (headless) CMS. Open Source on github.
- mtmail 9y ago
  I think it's fair to add a disclaimer the commenter works for enomic. (self promotion itself is totally fine of course).
  - mortyeriksen 9y ago
    Agreed.
LarryMade2 9y ago
Me LAMP, other people? maybe other stuff. Picking a stack is a combination of the tools which will effectively solve whatever issues you have that work for how you develop as well as work with your computing platform(s) of choice. a) start with whats readily available and what you can understand and learn/build from there. b) find what widely popular for your market (solutions will vary) and start with that. A better question is "I am wanting to do [this] (and maybe [that]), what stacks work best for it? and why?" I do data based web APPS, PHP/MySQL are well suited, they are pretty unrestrictive and very flexible - in that you need to be aware to code for security: watch your inputs and how code can be called and learn some good programming practices to avoid spaghetti code. They also scale pretty easily. They aren't bleeding edge exciting but get the job done quite easily. Besides just asking find web apps you like and research what they are created with.
IpV8 9y ago
Python/Flask React. Hosted on a linux box (ubuntu) in the cloud.
ianleeclark 9y ago
I work in Elixir/Phoenix/React on a day-to-day basis. The last few personal projects I've handled had been Elixir/Phoenix/jQuery, but I'm now switching out jQuery for Elm and am really liking it so far. I'm building a CI system which is more or less a small state machine which Elm benefits from. Moreover, Elm seems to be really loved by the Phoenix community and integrating between Phoenix channels and Elm subscriptions was super easy
sidcool 9y ago
Scala with Play framework. Angular for front end.
alpeware 9y ago
My priorities have been full stack and solo developer. I'm back on Google App Engine Java 8 runtime with a Clojure(Script) stack. I haven't found anything comparable yet that offers this amount of flexibility, scalability and generous free tier to get started. Google seems to take Steve Yegge's Platform Rant [0] as a blueprint to try to beat Amazon at the Cloud game and creates an API for anything you can think of. As usual, the documentation and their support is terrible, but who needs support or documentation when you have a REPL? It's been a real pleasure to work with and I'm currently in the process of open sourcing some tooling libraries to smooth out the rough edges (Caveat: These are not stable yet, so use at your own risk). Currently working on a CLJC REPL over HTTP integrated with Emacs, but the following are available already - Example ring project: https://github.com/alpeware/jaq-example https://github.com/alpeware/jaq-example Leinigen plugin: https://github.com/alpeware/lein-jaq https://github.com/alpeware/lein-jaq Clojure bindings for App Engine services: https://github.com/alpeware/jaq-services https://github.com/alpeware/jaq-services [0] https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX
- nicomfe 9y ago
  https://media0.giphy.com/media/l0MYu38R0PPhIXe36/giphy-tumblr.gif https://media0.giphy.com/media/l0MYu38R0PPhIXe36/giphy-tumbl...
continuational 9y ago
We have an all-Scala stack with some nice properties: * Code sharing between client and server * Typed AJAX between client and server * Component based UI on the frontend Frontend: React4s (shameless plug I suppose) http://www.react4s.org/examples/todo-list http://www.react4s.org/examples/todo-list Backend: Akka HTTP https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka-http/current/index.html https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka-http/current/index.html Typed AJAX: Autowire with uPickle
mattmanser 9y ago
Almost the same question was asked a few days ago, lots of answers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16508965 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16508965 General popularity of LAMP python and rails, with very few js FOTM stacks mentioned.
deadcoder0904 9y ago
Everything JavaScript
2_listerine_pls 9y ago
Opinions on ASP.NET Core ?
- partisan 9y ago
  I use it for a web app and find that version 2 is super stable and though there are some minor issues, I am able to work on Mac with Visual Studio Code while my teammate uses Visual Studio on Windows. It's the best of all worlds at this point and Microsoft is investing in it to the point that it doesn't feel like a potential liability the way some of their dead end projects have ended up.
quickthrower2 9y ago
Work: ASP.NET MVC + KnockoutJS on my team (other teams using React etc.) Home: Elm + BaaS (Parse)
jadeydi 9y ago
ROR for web with html, Golang as api sever. Postgresql as databases
ooooak 9y ago
nextjs && node for api. some laravel on backend
sharmi 9y ago
Used to be django and postgres. For the next one, I might swap django out for something golang.
throwaway180118 9y ago
PHP7, Laravel, and MySQL.
nicomfe 9y ago
React - nodejs - mongoDB
firelemissiles 9y ago
React - GraphQL (with Graphcool Prisma)
gusmd 9y ago
I'm a C++/Python dev by day, so web apps are all personal projects. I've been using Python + Flask on personal projects just because Python. On the front-end, I try to use as little JavaScript as I can get away with. Recently, I've been playing with Bulma, a CSS framework, and I've been liking it so far. I've been meaning to learn some React for some parts of my apps that require more interactivity. I highly recommend Flask for people with some Python knowledge.
crisopolis 9y ago
Solo-developer on my side project... * Frontend: Vue.js 2, JavaScript ECMA 2017 * Backend: Erlang/OTP 20, Elixir 1.6.3, Phoenix 1.3.2 * Persistence: Postgres 9.5.4.2 * Hosting: Vultr

14 points by bryk 9y ago

Check out Enonic XP - https://enonic.com https://enonic.com. Runs in any cloud and you can build your server side logic in Javascript. Embedded NoSQL, search engine, identity and (headless) CMS. Open Source on github.

mtmail 9y ago
I think it's fair to add a disclaimer the commenter works for enomic. (self promotion itself is totally fine of course).
- mortyeriksen 9y ago
  Agreed.

LarryMade2 9y ago

Me LAMP, other people? maybe other stuff. Picking a stack is a combination of the tools which will effectively solve whatever issues you have that work for how you develop as well as work with your computing platform(s) of choice. a) start with whats readily available and what you can understand and learn/build from there. b) find what widely popular for your market (solutions will vary) and start with that. A better question is "I am wanting to do [this] (and maybe [that]), what stacks work best for it? and why?" I do data based web APPS, PHP/MySQL are well suited, they are pretty unrestrictive and very flexible - in that you need to be aware to code for security: watch your inputs and how code can be called and learn some good programming practices to avoid spaghetti code. They also scale pretty easily. They aren't bleeding edge exciting but get the job done quite easily. Besides just asking find web apps you like and research what they are created with.

IpV8 9y ago

Python/Flask React. Hosted on a linux box (ubuntu) in the cloud.

ianleeclark 9y ago

I work in Elixir/Phoenix/React on a day-to-day basis. The last few personal projects I've handled had been Elixir/Phoenix/jQuery, but I'm now switching out jQuery for Elm and am really liking it so far. I'm building a CI system which is more or less a small state machine which Elm benefits from. Moreover, Elm seems to be really loved by the Phoenix community and integrating between Phoenix channels and Elm subscriptions was super easy

sidcool 9y ago

Scala with Play framework. Angular for front end.

alpeware 9y ago

My priorities have been full stack and solo developer. I'm back on Google App Engine Java 8 runtime with a Clojure(Script) stack. I haven't found anything comparable yet that offers this amount of flexibility, scalability and generous free tier to get started. Google seems to take Steve Yegge's Platform Rant [0] as a blueprint to try to beat Amazon at the Cloud game and creates an API for anything you can think of. As usual, the documentation and their support is terrible, but who needs support or documentation when you have a REPL? It's been a real pleasure to work with and I'm currently in the process of open sourcing some tooling libraries to smooth out the rough edges (Caveat: These are not stable yet, so use at your own risk). Currently working on a CLJC REPL over HTTP integrated with Emacs, but the following are available already - Example ring project: https://github.com/alpeware/jaq-example https://github.com/alpeware/jaq-example Leinigen plugin: https://github.com/alpeware/lein-jaq https://github.com/alpeware/lein-jaq Clojure bindings for App Engine services: https://github.com/alpeware/jaq-services https://github.com/alpeware/jaq-services [0] https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX

nicomfe 9y ago
https://media0.giphy.com/media/l0MYu38R0PPhIXe36/giphy-tumblr.gif https://media0.giphy.com/media/l0MYu38R0PPhIXe36/giphy-tumbl...

continuational 9y ago

We have an all-Scala stack with some nice properties: * Code sharing between client and server * Typed AJAX between client and server * Component based UI on the frontend Frontend: React4s (shameless plug I suppose) http://www.react4s.org/examples/todo-list http://www.react4s.org/examples/todo-list Backend: Akka HTTP https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka-http/current/index.html https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka-http/current/index.html Typed AJAX: Autowire with uPickle

mattmanser 9y ago

Almost the same question was asked a few days ago, lots of answers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16508965 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16508965 General popularity of LAMP python and rails, with very few js FOTM stacks mentioned.

deadcoder0904 9y ago

Everything JavaScript

2_listerine_pls 9y ago

Opinions on ASP.NET Core ?

partisan 9y ago
I use it for a web app and find that version 2 is super stable and though there are some minor issues, I am able to work on Mac with Visual Studio Code while my teammate uses Visual Studio on Windows. It's the best of all worlds at this point and Microsoft is investing in it to the point that it doesn't feel like a potential liability the way some of their dead end projects have ended up.

quickthrower2 9y ago

Work: ASP.NET MVC + KnockoutJS on my team (other teams using React etc.) Home: Elm + BaaS (Parse)

jadeydi 9y ago

ROR for web with html, Golang as api sever. Postgresql as databases

ooooak 9y ago

nextjs && node for api. some laravel on backend

sharmi 9y ago

Used to be django and postgres. For the next one, I might swap django out for something golang.

throwaway180118 9y ago

PHP7, Laravel, and MySQL.

nicomfe 9y ago

React - nodejs - mongoDB

firelemissiles 9y ago

React - GraphQL (with Graphcool Prisma)

gusmd 9y ago

I'm a C++/Python dev by day, so web apps are all personal projects. I've been using Python + Flask on personal projects just because Python. On the front-end, I try to use as little JavaScript as I can get away with. Recently, I've been playing with Bulma, a CSS framework, and I've been liking it so far. I've been meaning to learn some React for some parts of my apps that require more interactivity. I highly recommend Flask for people with some Python knowledge.

crisopolis 9y ago

Solo-developer on my side project... * Frontend: Vue.js 2, JavaScript ECMA 2017 * Backend: Erlang/OTP 20, Elixir 1.6.3, Phoenix 1.3.2 * Persistence: Postgres 9.5.4.2 * Hosting: Vultr