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- If you're building a new web app today, which frameworks, platforms, technologies, etc. would you use? why? Backend: NodeJS - It's nice to have javascript o

by jenso 13y ago

- If you're building a new web app today, which frameworks, platforms, technologies, etc. would you use? why? Backend: NodeJS - It's nice to have javascript on both the frontend and backend. And NodeJS is FAST. MongoDB + PostgresSQL - MongoDB for stuff that needs to be fast / fast to build. PostgresSQL for stuff that doesnt fit the document model. Frontend: AngularJS - It's either AngularJS or Ember.js, I prefer AngularJS. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14395887/what-are-benefits-of-using-backbone-js-vs-ember-js-vs-angular-js http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14395887/what-are-benefit... Yeoman - Generate boilerplate code Grunt - Compile LESS, Run tests, CSS minification Bower - Javascript dependencies management - Would you choose a familiar framework that allows you to develop faster (because you're comfortable with it) even though it's not necessarily 100% 'right' for the job? I'd rather choose a new framework, at least if it's a project that I will put serious effort into. - Would you push your own limit and think outside the box to find a better solution even though introducing new technology to the team could be costly (and possibly unpopular)? Yes, I would definitely do it. That's actually what I'm currently doing at a startup. We're refactoring the current frontend-javascript codebase which is 30 000 lines of code and it's completely unmaintainable, so we're rewriting it in AngularJS

edshadi 13y ago
"It's either AngularJS or Ember.js" is Backone out of the question for you? how come?
- jenso 13y ago
  First of all, I wouldn't call Backbone a framework. It's more like a library. It's only about 1500 lines of code with lot's of comments. If you use Backbone, you'll have to reimplement/include other libraries to use the right design-patterns. And this takes time. AngularJS and Ember.js makes these decisions for you which saves alot of time.
  - edshadi 13y ago
    I wouldn't call it a framework either, was just curious about your opinion on it.
cjbprime 13y ago
I don't understand why people (not just you) don't mention which web framework they're running on top of Node. Is everyone really rolling their own backend, perhaps using Express? Express is much less featureful than a full web framework in the style of Django or Rails.

by jenso 13y ago

edshadi 13y ago

"It's either AngularJS or Ember.js" is Backone out of the question for you? how come?

jenso 13y ago
First of all, I wouldn't call Backbone a framework. It's more like a library. It's only about 1500 lines of code with lot's of comments. If you use Backbone, you'll have to reimplement/include other libraries to use the right design-patterns. And this takes time. AngularJS and Ember.js makes these decisions for you which saves alot of time.
- edshadi 13y ago
  I wouldn't call it a framework either, was just curious about your opinion on it.

cjbprime 13y ago

I don't understand why people (not just you) don't mention which web framework they're running on top of Node. Is everyone really rolling their own backend, perhaps using Express? Express is much less featureful than a full web framework in the style of Django or Rails.