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Ask HN: Hardware guy needs to learn web application development – what language?

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Re: Ask HN: Hardware guy needs to learn web application development – what language?

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I've been using the Apache web server and CouchDB on the server side along with PouchDB.js, jQuery, Bootstrap, and Service Workers on the client side. This provides most everything needed to create a feature rich "Single Page, Offline First, Progressive, web app. Almost all of the app code is Javascript. What little server side code is needed I write in Perl, but Python would work just as well. Personally, I think Co…

Please do a writeup on something you've built, I am extremely interested.

Re: Ask HN: Hardware guy needs to learn web application development – what language?

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post #21
post #5

I've been using the Apache web server and CouchDB on the server side along with PouchDB.js, jQuery, Bootstrap, and Service Workers on the client side. This provides most everything needed to create a feature rich "Single Page, Offline First, Progressive, web app. Almost all of the app code is Javascript. What little server side code is needed I write in Perl, but Python would work just as well. Personally, I think Co…

Please do a writeup on something you've built, I am extremely interested.

You can find more info about this approach and a "blog" app I've been working on at Azartiz.com.
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