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Ask HN: What stack would you use to build a CRUD web app on the JVM today?
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Re: Ask HN: What stack would you use to build a CRUD web app on the JVM today?
#22It depends.
If I were to work mostly alone on a smaller project, I would use clojure/clojure-script, because I used it at my work for a year and really liked it.
If I were to work with more people, I would first ask them.
Do they have dislike for dynamic typing? Scala+Play sounds good.
Are they really comfortable with EE java? Spring MVC + Hibernate + JSP ... e.t.c
Re: Ask HN: What stack would you use to build a CRUD web app on the JVM today?
#23i recently wrote a small blog engine in vert.x (http://vertx.io/). i'm not fluent with reactive programming yet (so i didn't use RxJava), but the callback hell was manageable enough. among the upsides are the seamless integration and handling of websockets. the blog engine is a bit of an outlier though because it's embedded and fully single threaded. there are a lot more advantages if you leave out the embedding, like several more languages (several languages with interpreters available on the JVM).
Re: Ask HN: What stack would you use to build a CRUD web app on the JVM today?
#24Jhipster has a nice stack ( https://jhipster.github.io/ )
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Re: Ask HN: What stack would you use to build a CRUD web app on the JVM today?
#25That would be Spring Roo, along with roostrap.
Re: Ask HN: What stack would you use to build a CRUD web app on the JVM today?
#26StrawBerry on Beryl as backend and Torque or Glass as frontend
Re: Ask HN: What stack would you use to build a CRUD web app on the JVM today?
#27Spring 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 tremendo…
For people whose impression of Spring and Hibernate was formed a decade ago, its really worth another look now. You can completely manage them with annotations in your code and lots of the boilerplate will be generated for you based on naming conventions.
JHipster (https://jhipster.github.io/) provides a Yeoman generator to make a basic project template as well as generate entities and screens using an Angular, Spring Boot & Hibernate stack which makes it super easy to get started with all of these components.
An open source alternative to JRebel is https://github.com/dcevm/dcevm - it works great with Java 8, Intellij, Spring & Hibernate.
Re: Ask HN: What stack would you use to build a CRUD web app on the JVM today?
#28I'm building something with React + Relay + Sangria and it's working out well so far. There's a sample sangria project showing how to use it on akka-http, and if you write a pure web app like this, you could serve the javascript client from somewhere dumb like S3. Plus with this stack you can plug in react-native apps as well once your server is written.
Re: Ask HN: What stack would you use to build a CRUD web app on the JVM today?
#29I would not start with technology stack and build around them. You look at your use cases and build out. Pick your frameworks and databases judiciously and as late as possible.
Read: https://blog.8thlight.com/uncle-bob/2012/05/15/NODB.html
Read: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Growing-Object-Oriented-Software-Gui...
[EDIT] Removed the unnecessary/unhelpful opening statement.
Re: Ask HN: What stack would you use to build a CRUD web app on the JVM today?
#30Spring 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 cl…
If you're favoring Boot, why not just use a newer version of Grails?