Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up quickly in 2018? • Hacker News Board

jacobsenscott wrote: post #39

Rails + heroku is pretty much instant. If you want to pay a little little less a single vps instance can run the web app and the postgres server at the same time.

With a single VPS, you're missing the DB backup that is probably the most important piece if the puzzle provided by heroku.

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Post by lastofus » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 3:30 AM UTC

After setting up server instances from scratch by hand multiple times over the years (and spending several hours each time), I finally bit the bullet and learned Ansible.

I can now take a bare VM image on DO/AWS to a fully functioning Django app.

I ended up modifying: https://github.com/jcalazan/ansible-django-stack

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Post by Cofike » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 3:31 AM UTC

Docker containers are a breeze on heroku. The only issue is some wonkiness trying to ssh into the running container. Have yet to get it to work.

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Post by andrei_says_ » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 3:34 AM UTC

Rails still rocks, ruby is still beautiful and elegant, Heroku is still incredibly easy to deploy to. Vuejs is a good option for complex data driven ui.

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Post by RenegadeEagle » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 3:35 AM UTC

sampl wrote: post #27

Quickly? Firebase + React. Seriously, don’t overlook this combo. Auth just works. Hosting built in, no backend or database server to maintain. No API, just subscribe to a collection right from the view. It just works (and is easily swapped for the real deal if you need it). I made a guide/boilerplate to show you how (includes auth, CRUD, full text search, stripe subscriptions): http://getfirefly.org/

Good idea. Gonna look into this!

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Post by rchowe » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 3:37 AM UTC

0x4f3759df wrote: post #8

1) ASP MVC .NET Core 2 project 2) Get a linux vm 3) Write a WSL Script to push to linux vm (lftp + sshpass)

ASP.NET Core in a (Linux-based) Docker container and Amazon Elastic Beanstalk works pretty well.

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Post by Ecco » Sun, Jun 03, 2018, 3:40 AM UTC

Xeoncross wrote: post #19

marcus_holmes wrote: post #13

I write the server-side in Go, cross-compile to a Linux binary, and set that up as a service on a vanilla Ubuntu box (usually Digital Ocean). Deploying a new version is a matter of sftp'ing the new binary (and any templates, images, etc) over the top of the old one and restarting the service. If I need a database then I use Postgres, and the setup for that can be a pain, so I get it documented/scripted using Ansible.…

This is about as 2018 as it gets. Go and Rust are the only modern languages where you don't have to second-guess the stdlib for bad choices (looking at you php/ruby/javascript/etc..) yet provide amazing performance. Backend: Go (optional embed db: ledisdb / boltdb / leveldb / rocksdb / etc...) + Frontend: create-react-app / create-react-native-app

I find Ruby’s stdlib a pleasure to use.