Ask HN: What stack would you use to build a CRUD web app on the JVM today?

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Post by networked » Wed, Sep 30, 2015, 10:26 AM UTC

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Post by ramkalari » Wed, Sep 30, 2015, 10:29 AM UTC

Play Framework

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Post by richardwhiuk » Wed, Sep 30, 2015, 10:30 AM UTC

Why are you tied to using the JVM?

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Post by neya » Wed, Sep 30, 2015, 10:32 AM UTC

I second Play Framework. Have used it and Scala is a very nice language to learn. If I had invested in so much into the JVM, Play Framework would be it. But, if it's just a simple CRUD app, and if you had a choice, I'd recommend you to give Ruby on Rails a try. Hope this helps!

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Post by oweiler » Wed, Sep 30, 2015, 10:32 AM UTC

On the server: Spring Boot + Spring MVC + Spring Data + Gradle

On the client: React

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Post by raugustinus » Wed, Sep 30, 2015, 10:33 AM UTC

http://www.dropwizard.io/ combined with reactjs

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Post by Gonzih » Wed, Sep 30, 2015, 10:34 AM UTC

Clojure + ClojureScript + Reagent/Om as an abstraction on top of React

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Post by aSig » Wed, Sep 30, 2015, 10:34 AM UTC

Spring Boot backed with Postgres and Maven to wrap it all up. Spring Boot is really years of distilled knowledge of creating web servers in Java. Its opinionated but for good reason; you'll very quickly get everything you need for a RESTful API and there's extensions for almost everything you'd need. Need to work with websockets? Just add a few lines to your POM. Need scheduling? Include an annotation on your main class. It really is a solid framework.

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Post by vbezhenar » Wed, Sep 30, 2015, 10:35 AM UTC

Spring MVC + Hibernate. I'm familiar with those libraries and they provide almost everything I usually need.

For frontend I would choose either JSP or Thymeleaf, both are good, depends on your taste and whether you're writing HTML markup. Another option is a JavaScript-powered SPA website. You have plenty of choices there.

And I highly suggest using Intellij Idea Ultimate + JRebel. Those technologies provide tremendous productivity boost and I can't imagine working without them. Though they are not free (AFAIK you can get JRebel for free).

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Post by skzo » Wed, Sep 30, 2015, 10:36 AM UTC

Jhipster has a nice stack ( https://jhipster.github.io/ )