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Ask HN: What's your go-to back end for simple projects?
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#2Rails.
You get lots of great stuff out of the box. Perfect for me to get up and running quickly for simple/side projects.
Writing Ruby feels nice and is always a welcome change of pace from a lot of the heavy JS stuff I am doing on frontend atm.
Re: Ask HN: What's your go-to back end for simple projects?
#3The language you know the most would be best fit. Maybe Python/Rails/Go could be most optimal fit, if you know very good Java or PHP and don't want to waste time on learning something new - stay with that.
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#4Google Firebase.
As a front-end developer I just can't warrant the time setting up a backend, setting up a database, defining routes, handling authentication and the other nonsense that seemingly takes a solid day to get working.
Firebase to me is the best choice for simple projects, I don't use anything else anymore.
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#5Mojolicious. ( http://mojolicious.org/ )
I am a sysadmin. I like Perl and its plethora of modules. With Mojolicious, I can write a simple web app/prototype within the hour.
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#6Nancyfx
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#7Django
Good solid base for quickly developing something quickly.
Iterating on a database schema has never been easier since 1.7 the migration tools are built in and the ecosystem of plugins has lots of tools that make development of a prototype extremely easy. It just keeps on getting better, just the other day I found an plugin to automatically generate knockout.js powered AJAX forms without me having to write any of the JavaScript.
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#8Django.
The ORM is really usable and simple CRUD apps are pretty easy after you've used it a few times. Django Admin for free is nice too.
Re: Ask HN: What's your go-to back end for simple projects?
#9The language you know the most would be best fit. Maybe Python/Rails/Go could be most optimal fit, if you know very good Java or PHP and don't want to waste time on learning something new - stay with that.
I'm familiar with Java Servlets and Express for the middle-layer. I've yet to set up a database from scratch, but I've worked with MySQL and Oracle SQL databases before. It'd be cool to learn more about setting up and scaling a database (though I doubt I'd need much scaling for my side-project for awhile).
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#10C.
Why the hell does everything have to be a web app?