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

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Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up quickly in 2018?

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Post by nooyurrsdey »

For some reason people seem to constant doubt Ruby-ists and Rails Devs.

I completely get that other languages have huge benefits over Ruby. Golang being compiled or Java running anywhere, etc... And ruby is slow, totally understood.

But if youre talking about getting a functioning webapp up and running quickly... no way anyone is beating a Rails dev in setting one up. The piping and scaffolding are all built in and the gem ecosystem (for web apps specifically) is so well maintained and robust that you can drop it in to your app and get a functioning product with ease.

I know that's a loaded statement bc Rails becomes not so great in other cases like building speedy backend jobs. But for a small user-facing web app it's hands down the best.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up quickly in 2018?

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Post by csytan »

Python3 + tornado + peewee + sqlite3 + vuejs hosted on Digital Ocean.

I've been using this combo in production for https://www.cozycal.com for a year with no problems.

Likes: - More control than hosted environments - Dirt cheap

Dislikes: - More responsibility than hosted environments

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up quickly in 2018?

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Post by aroman »

frontend: create-react-app

frontend hosting: surge.sh (free)

backend: node + socket.io (usually on a separate domain with CORS)

backend hosting: heroku (free)

database: MongoDB

database host: mlab (free)

everything in TypeScript, of course, because when you're in a hurry, you simply don't have time for your code to not be typesafe! (actually though, TS is a maaaaajor time saver, especially for smaller projects!)

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up quickly in 2018?

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Post by tty7 »

nooyurrsdey wrote: post #63

For some reason people seem to constant doubt Ruby-ists and Rails Devs. I completely get that other languages have huge benefits over Ruby. Golang being compiled or Java running anywhere, etc... And ruby is slow, totally understood. But if youre talking about getting a functioning webapp up and running quickly ... no way anyone is beating a Rails dev in setting one up. The piping and scaffolding are all built in and…

I looked into rails in some detail about a year ago, and I think it's the only pretty good solution for this I've come across—but there's a steep up front cost in learning/setup etc. (or so it seems).

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up quickly in 2018?

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Post by PostOnce »

nooyurrsdey wrote: post #63

For some reason people seem to constant doubt Ruby-ists and Rails Devs. I completely get that other languages have huge benefits over Ruby. Golang being compiled or Java running anywhere, etc... And ruby is slow, totally understood. But if youre talking about getting a functioning webapp up and running quickly ... no way anyone is beating a Rails dev in setting one up. The piping and scaffolding are all built in and…

Are you aware that Flask exists for Python? I might take that bet about no one being able to go quicker than a Rails dev.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up quickly in 2018?

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Post by wybiral »

nooyurrsdey wrote: post #63

For some reason people seem to constant doubt Ruby-ists and Rails Devs. I completely get that other languages have huge benefits over Ruby. Golang being compiled or Java running anywhere, etc... And ruby is slow, totally understood. But if youre talking about getting a functioning webapp up and running quickly ... no way anyone is beating a Rails dev in setting one up. The piping and scaffolding are all built in and…

The benefit of Golang isn't that it's compiled. It's that it has a good IO and concurrency model and the language is strict enough to force certain good practices on developers.

IMO it would be almost as good even if the code execution were as slow as Python or Ruby.

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