Ask HN: What's your go-to back end for simple projects? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What's your go-to back end for simple projects?

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Post by tedmiston » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 12:25 AM UTC

DigitalSea wrote: post #4

Google 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.

As a mostly back-end developer, I'm still a fan of Firebase as well for the right projects. I haven't used it since they were acquired but the free tier still looks pretty generous.

The only downside I really see is once you leave the free tier you're at $25 / month minimum whereas I can run a small backend (or multiple small backends) on a $5 / month box. The difference really adds up if we're talking multiple small projects for multiple years.

Re: Ask HN: What's your go-to back end for simple projects?

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Post by wallawe » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 12:35 AM UTC

Stamplay has been awesome for me as a front-end dev to get things up and running quickly. Rails is great as well, esp if SEO is a consideration.

Re: Ask HN: What's your go-to back end for simple projects?

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Post by sparky_ » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 12:56 AM UTC

techdragon wrote: post #7

Django 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 o…

w..what plugin is that? I need that!

Re: Ask HN: What's your go-to back end for simple projects?

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Post by gt2 » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 1:02 AM UTC

tedmiston wrote: post #8

Django. 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.

For those using Rails, rails_admin and activeadmin gems provide a similar admin for Rails models.

Re: Ask HN: What's your go-to back end for simple projects?

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Post by jklein11 » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 1:04 AM UTC

rbalsdon wrote: post #10

C. Why the hell does everything have to be a web app?

Why the hell can't C be in the web?[1]

1.https://medium.com/@lucperkins/web-development-in-c-crazy-or...

Re: Ask HN: What's your go-to back end for simple projects?

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Post by nicomfe » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 1:06 AM UTC

Im using firebase as well, it is pretty easy and good enough for a small project

Re: Ask HN: What's your go-to back end for simple projects?

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Post by skybrian » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 1:12 AM UTC

Go with App Engine. There is a free tier and I've had projects running there for years.

Re: Ask HN: What's your go-to back end for simple projects?

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Post by Brainix » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 1:54 AM UTC

Flask! It's Pythonic and good. Once you've done a couple of Flask projects, you can spin up a new microservice in a couple of hours. It's much lighter weight than Django, so it forces you to keep fewer moving parts in your head while hacking.

http://flask.pocoo.org/

Lately, I've been using Flask on the back-end, and React on the front-end.

Re: Ask HN: What's your go-to back end for simple projects?

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Post by lawnchair_larry » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 2:00 AM UTC

rbalsdon wrote: post #10

C. Why the hell does everything have to be a web app?

C is usually the wrong choice for non-web apps too.

Re: Ask HN: What's your go-to back end for simple projects?

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Post by crystalPalace » Fri, Nov 18, 2016, 2:03 AM UTC

Brainix wrote: post #18

Flask! It's Pythonic and good. Once you've done a couple of Flask projects, you can spin up a new microservice in a couple of hours. It's much lighter weight than Django, so it forces you to keep fewer moving parts in your head while hacking. http://flask.pocoo.org/ Lately, I've been using Flask on the back-end, and React on the front-end.

I also use and love Flask for exactly these reasons. Additionally I've been playing around with Flask_Restful and have been very pleased with the results.