Jersey + Hibernate for a RESTful service. AngularJS in the frontend
Ask HN: What stack would you use to build a CRUD web app on the JVM today?
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#12jruby / rails
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#13I second Play Framework. Have used it and Scala is a very nice language to learn. If I had invested in so much into the JVM, Play Framework would be it. But, if it's just a simple CRUD app, and if you had a choice, I'd recommend you to give Ruby on Rails a try. Hope this helps!
Scala and Play is a great choice. Another good Scala framework is Lift:
http://liftweb.net/
If JVM is not a must, consider using Meteor.
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#14Definitely Clojure with http-kit [1]. Easy to use, minimalist and supports websockets.
However, it depends from your use-case. Could add some detail please?
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#15I second Play Framework. Have used it and Scala is a very nice language to learn. If I had invested in so much into the JVM, Play Framework would be it. But, if it's just a simple CRUD app, and if you had a choice, I'd recommend you to give Ruby on Rails a try. Hope this helps!
I agree with Play/Scala combination. Play is light enough for simple tasks, but at the same time it's a feature-complete powerful beast - built on Akka and capable of potentially handling millions of requests.
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#16Java spark or vertex + hiberate or sql2o + freemarker
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#17Also agree with the combination of Play + Scala for flexibility and ease of use.
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#18Spring 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…
I attempted to learn Spring framework about a year ago since I wanted to build a quick CRUD app on the JVM too. However, I found the Getting Started guides really difficult to learn from. In addition, I found myself quite confused as to which templating engine to use and how to use it in Spring. I stopped working on CRUD for other reasons (pursuing an MSc where I mostly wrote C code).
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#19Grails, I really like Groovy as a language. Grails provides a lot out of the box and is good enough performance wize for small to medium sites with no tuning.
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#20ReactJS + DropWizard + JDBI (or JOOQ) if you like JAX-RS.
ReactJS + Spark framework (or Vert.x 3 or Ratpack) + JDBI if you don't like JAX-RS.
I don't like JAX-RS, but it is hard to beat DropWizard if you do.