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Ask HN: What's your goto for creating a REST API?

3 points by mdgrech23 8y ago

It's 2018, what's your stack look like? Please include language, framework, database/persistence, and how you deploy.

cascala 8y ago
Java Spring Mongo Proprietary deployment
- mdgrech23 8y ago
  Nice, which version of Java?
mikeluby 8y ago
API Gateway, AWS Lambda (python), Dynamodb, and rolled my own deployment pipeline
- mdgrech23 8y ago
  Nice, do you have any concerns about vendor lock in?
  - mikeluby 8y ago
    The thought is there but the functions are implemented with a layer of abstraction that wouldn't make it hard to move to another vendor
lettergram 8y ago
Rails, it's easy, always works, takes a couple hours to setup what I need.
- mdgrech23 8y ago
  Cool, how do you deploy it?
  - lettergram 8y ago
    You can use elastic beanstalk (puma + nginx), Heroku, countless other ways. Docker container, nginx, on a server, etc.
Khelavaster 8y ago
ASP.Net Web API with SQL Server, deployed with Visual Studio's one-click publish to Azure, a hosted, Windows Server etc.
mindcrime 8y ago
Groovy / Grails / JAX-RS + Postgresql, deployed on AWS using Ansible. But I'm working on starting to containerize everything I do, and move to a Docker / Kubernetes centric model.
irshadc 8y ago
Jhipster(spring boot) + swagger
sh87 8y ago
Over time I figured its smarter to avoid frameworks whenever possible. * Backend is nodejs mostly (sometimes extends to express when needed) * DB is usually SQLlite / hosted mongo * UI is mostly in HTML/Vue/React in increasing order of complexity (latest stable versions) Very smooth deploys on Heroku.
AlexITC 8y ago
After using quite a lot of frameworks in several languages, I ended up writing my own micro-framework. * Language: Scala * Framework: playsonify [1] on top of play and lately, on top of akka-http (pre-release module [2]). * Database: PostgreSQL when possible. * Deployment: Ansible [1] https://github.com/AlexITC/playsonify https://github.com/AlexITC/playsonify [2] https://github.com/AlexITC/playsonify/tree/2.0.0-SNAPSHOT/playsonify-akka-http https://github.com/AlexITC/playsonify/tree/2.0.0-SNAPSHOT/pl...
zmmmmm 8y ago
My new favorite: Micronaut [1]. It's the first java based framework (though I am using Groovy with it) that just "does what I want" with sensible defaults for a modern REST based API: simple annotation based URI spec on methods with bindings to arguments for parameters, and defaults to JSON responses with encoding etc all built in. You can hook it to hibernate, GORM etc., but I just use Groovy's built in Sql classes which essentially are as good as a minimalistic ORM. Very simple, no fuss, "just works" as advertised. [1] http://micronaut.io/ http://micronaut.io/

3 points by mdgrech23 8y ago

It's 2018, what's your stack look like? Please include language, framework, database/persistence, and how you deploy.

cascala 8y ago

Java Spring Mongo Proprietary deployment

mdgrech23 8y ago
Nice, which version of Java?

mikeluby 8y ago

API Gateway, AWS Lambda (python), Dynamodb, and rolled my own deployment pipeline

mdgrech23 8y ago
Nice, do you have any concerns about vendor lock in?
- mikeluby 8y ago
  The thought is there but the functions are implemented with a layer of abstraction that wouldn't make it hard to move to another vendor

lettergram 8y ago

Rails, it's easy, always works, takes a couple hours to setup what I need.

mdgrech23 8y ago
Cool, how do you deploy it?
- lettergram 8y ago
  You can use elastic beanstalk (puma + nginx), Heroku, countless other ways. Docker container, nginx, on a server, etc.

Khelavaster 8y ago

ASP.Net Web API with SQL Server, deployed with Visual Studio's one-click publish to Azure, a hosted, Windows Server etc.

mindcrime 8y ago

Groovy / Grails / JAX-RS + Postgresql, deployed on AWS using Ansible. But I'm working on starting to containerize everything I do, and move to a Docker / Kubernetes centric model.

irshadc 8y ago

Jhipster(spring boot) + swagger

sh87 8y ago

Over time I figured its smarter to avoid frameworks whenever possible. * Backend is nodejs mostly (sometimes extends to express when needed) * DB is usually SQLlite / hosted mongo * UI is mostly in HTML/Vue/React in increasing order of complexity (latest stable versions) Very smooth deploys on Heroku.

AlexITC 8y ago

After using quite a lot of frameworks in several languages, I ended up writing my own micro-framework. * Language: Scala * Framework: playsonify [1] on top of play and lately, on top of akka-http (pre-release module [2]). * Database: PostgreSQL when possible. * Deployment: Ansible [1] https://github.com/AlexITC/playsonify https://github.com/AlexITC/playsonify [2] https://github.com/AlexITC/playsonify/tree/2.0.0-SNAPSHOT/playsonify-akka-http https://github.com/AlexITC/playsonify/tree/2.0.0-SNAPSHOT/pl...

zmmmmm 8y ago

My new favorite: Micronaut [1]. It's the first java based framework (though I am using Groovy with it) that just "does what I want" with sensible defaults for a modern REST based API: simple annotation based URI spec on methods with bindings to arguments for parameters, and defaults to JSON responses with encoding etc all built in. You can hook it to hibernate, GORM etc., but I just use Groovy's built in Sql classes which essentially are as good as a minimalistic ORM. Very simple, no fuss, "just works" as advertised. [1] http://micronaut.io/ http://micronaut.io/