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Re: Ask HN: What web framework do you use? Why did you choose it?

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Post by arms » Sun, Dec 25, 2016, 3:38 PM UTC

Django, mostly. I like its batteries included approach and its maturity. I've found it's a great tool for many jobs. Every now and then I'll use something smaller, like Flask or Falcon, but as soon as I need an ORM, or auth, I use Django.

I've also used Phoenix a few times now and have been enjoying it. But I know Python much better than I do Elixir, so I skew towards that.

Re: Ask HN: What web framework do you use? Why did you choose it?

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Post by zachsnow » Sun, Dec 25, 2016, 3:39 PM UTC

Django for work, a variety of (popular) tools for random projects.

Re: Ask HN: What web framework do you use? Why did you choose it?

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Post by mchill » Sun, Dec 25, 2016, 3:41 PM UTC

All in with Angular 2 using the angular-cli. TypeScript, everything is a component, good fit for enterprise projects, quickly on-board new developers.

Re: Ask HN: What web framework do you use? Why did you choose it?

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Post by zalmoxes » Sun, Dec 25, 2016, 3:42 PM UTC

I write in Go, and use the following libs:

net/http: The stdlib package is robust and I find myself productive working with the provided APIs. gorilla/mux router instead of the default servemux.

I use go-kit https://gokit.io/examples/stringsvc.html for most production apps I write. I use go-kit because it provides a clean separation of decode/encode logic from the actual business logic of my application and includes some great packages for instrumentation, logging rate-limiting and bunch of other concerns.

On the frontend side, I prefer to write clients in Elm.

Re: Ask HN: What web framework do you use? Why did you choose it?

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Post by out_of_protocol » Sun, Dec 25, 2016, 3:43 PM UTC

Backend: Rails (older projects) and Phoenix (Elixir) for newer ones

Frontend: None/jQuery for simple sites, Angular 1 (older projects) and Vue 2 (newer) for apps

Re: Ask HN: What web framework do you use? Why did you choose it?

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Post by donmb » Sun, Dec 25, 2016, 3:43 PM UTC

Rails - because Ruby is easy to learn, especially for beginners and you get great, custom things done in no time. Also Rails forces you in some patterns that make sense in my opinion. Testing is also fun.

Re: Ask HN: What web framework do you use? Why did you choose it?

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Post by alexanderson » Sun, Dec 25, 2016, 3:44 PM UTC

I'm operating with Express on one end with React on the other. The big difference with this setup is GraphQL in the middle. It is a huge help to making sense of data flow, what with the strictly typed schema and the built in subscription model. I've also engineered my own event sourcing/CQRS framework with the intention of expanding the app with micro services eventually, but it's just one server node for now.

Re: Ask HN: What web framework do you use? Why did you choose it?

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Post by friedman23 » Sun, Dec 25, 2016, 3:45 PM UTC

I recently switched to nodejs from flask and I like it but there are some issues

The pros:

- programming the same language in the frontend and the backend (which becomes a big deal when you do serverside rendering of react components)

- for some reason AWS and Google App Engine have very good nodejs support

- very fast io

- very fast iteration time, faster than python

The cons:

- the lack of quality libraries and standards. With flask there are well known, well tested libraries for every use case. Not so with nodejs.

- javascript, which isn't really a big deal

Re: Ask HN: What web framework do you use? Why did you choose it?

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Post by equalarrow » Sun, Dec 25, 2016, 3:48 PM UTC

Rails because I've been using it for a lonnnng time. Last month I got a subscription to stationcode.net and it's been handy for code gen. Talked to the owner and he said more is on the way.

Re: Ask HN: What web framework do you use? Why did you choose it?

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Post by k__ » Sun, Dec 25, 2016, 3:53 PM UTC

friedman23 wrote: post #18

I recently switched to nodejs from flask and I like it but there are some issues The pros: - programming the same language in the frontend and the backend (which becomes a big deal when you do serverside rendering of react components) - for some reason AWS and Google App Engine have very good nodejs support - very fast io - very fast iteration time, faster than python The cons: - the lack of quality libraries and sta…

Yes, I talked with a few Python devs and they all envied the package management of Node.js.

Funny thing is, NPM is fun at the start, but in long running projects it's really bad. I mean, it feels like a huge step forward coming from PHP (where I didn't have any package manager back in the days) or Python (where pip seems to be a bit clunky) but it still could be better. Hopefully Yarn changes that.

Having the same language on front and backend is good for my own projects.

But it really is a problem on commercial projects I work on, because the people in charge tend to mix developers. I wouldn't consider myself a back-end developer, but was forced to write multiple APIs, because "it's just JavaScript, right?!"