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PHP and jquery.
by throwthere 5y ago
PHP and jquery.
- acabal 5y agoI think many people will think this is a joke answer, but IMHO "server-side language of choice + jQuery" is actually the best answer. So much can be accomplished with server-side rendering and some jQuery sprinkled on top. (jQuery isn't even strictly necessary with modern vanilla JS, but it's very nice syntactic sugar at the least.) 90% of apps/sites will fit into a basic CRUD/REST document format, which is exactly what server-side HTML served over a RESTful interface was made for. Judicious use of jQuery fills in the front end blanks for all but the most advanced use cases. The big benefit of this is that you're not locked in to the JS framework-of-the-week once it inevitably becomes either deprecated by its mammoth corporate sponsor who doesn't care about you, or when it's no longer the new hotness and you can't find developers who understand it anymore. jQuery has been around with a largely stable interface for a decade and a half. The secondary benefit is that you're not including some vast framework with innumerable, inauditable dependencies, requiring special expertise from highly-paid developers, just to put an AJAX button on a webform.
- snowwrestler 5y agoI’ve got nothing against PHP and jquery, but those are not even a full stack, let alone a batteries-included framework.
- Nextgrid 5y agoNothing against PHP as a language but much against bare PHP as a framework. I really suggest you look into Laravel (or any other PHP MVC framework) instead.