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Ask HN: What are the best web tools to build basic web apps as of October 2016?

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Re: Ask HN: What are the best web tools to build basic web apps as of October 2016?

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Post by djmashko2 »

I think you can build a simple web app very quickly using Create React App on the frontend, and a REST or GraphQL API on the backend.

One great thing about this architecture is that it can scale as the app gets more complex, since you can just add more components to the UI, and more fields to the GraphQL schema, without needing to re-structure anything.

I work on Apollo, a set of tools to make it easy to create and use a GraphQL API, and we have a hello world client [0] and server [1]:

[0] https://github.com/apollostack/frontpage-react-app [1] https://github.com/apollostack/frontpage-server

Re: Ask HN: What are the best web tools to build basic web apps as of October 2016?

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Post by renke1 »

Frontend: TypeScript, React, MobX

There is (in my opinion) no reason not go with TypeScript. It's strictly better than ES6. React and MobX because of their simplicity.

Backend: Go

No particular reason to choose Go other than it's fun. TypeScript with Node is also a good choice.

Edit: I am talking about SPAs.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best web tools to build basic web apps as of October 2016?

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Post by mumphster »

qaq wrote: post #2

Best tools are the ones that are appropriate for solving a given problem and that your team is productive with. React seams to be the most popular for new projects at the moment, but it tells you nothing about it being a good choice for your particular problem or situation. React is significantly more popular than Vue but say you happen to be planning a Laravel project and in that community Vue is way more popular th…

I agree. IMO if youre coding something for fun, just find some new tech that interests you and do it. Getting paid? Find what works well, learn it, and use it. You want stability and good community support / documentation. Dont follow fads for professional work.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best web tools to build basic web apps as of October 2016?

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Post by eterpstra »

Meteor is still pretty great. It's an all-in-one (including database) framework that uses JavaScript for both back and front ends. It's build tool also saves you from having to configure things like Babel, Webpack, SASS, etc...

The documentation for beginners is top notch as well: https://www.meteor.com/tutorials https://guide.meteor.com/

There's plenty of options, too. You can throw together a few files and have a simple app going in a very short time (an hour or two), or build highly modular apps with a React or Angular front-end.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best web tools to build basic web apps as of October 2016?

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Post by snippet22 »

It depends how much time you want to spend on it. If it's a simple app you'll never touch again then ms stuff is meant for turn and burn apps without learning anything.

If you want just Templating and always open connections for building backend site builder tools then PHP is your language.

If you want free and scalable with as little code as possible with building files you never have to write again then Python Django restful API and angular2.

If you plan for this to be worked on indefinitely and it'll be customized every day and you know the greatest will stay with you with high risk, then vanilla js and nodejs.

If you want as quick as possible but with a scalable price then reactjs and firebase.

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