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Ask HN: What's your go-to stack for prototyping web applications and MVPs?

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Re: Ask HN: What's your go-to stack for prototyping web applications and MVPs?

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Post by mod »

For the past couple of years my stack has been Rails & jQuery.

I'm on the cusp of starting a new project and some configuration problems have left me looking elsewhere. I used to work with Django a lot, and I may go that route, but I also think a full-javascript stack could be good for me professionally.

Alternatively, I'd love to try a clojure backend but frankly I'm a bit afraid of it--I tried maybe 18 months ago and I had a bad go of things. I've read lately that some of the problems I had have been remedied (most importantly better stack traces) and so I might just give that a go.

No matter what backend I choose, I'm going to build out a React/Redux front-end. I'm working with that on the job and I could use a little more time with it to become more comfortable. Also, I really think it's a good paradigm and that it's going to stick.

Anyway, lots of fun choices out there. If your efficiency isn't a top priority, I'd urge you to pick a language that looks fun. For me, Clojure is that option.

Re: Ask HN: What's your go-to stack for prototyping web applications and MVPs?

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Post by billconan »

JohnnySpaghetti wrote: post #15
billconan wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't use front-end lib that much. I usually purchase a template from themeforest. I care more about the design, whatever the theme I purchase use, I just modify it from there.

Thanks for your answer. I'm curious about what kind of projects you do with a C++ web server. Could you talk a bit about them?

The C++ server itself was my side project. I made it long time ago. I tried to create a blog with it.

https://github.com/shi-yan/Swiftly

Right now, I'm making a deep learning library. I want to create some simple dashboard ui for it.

I investigated few options. I don't like go. I know some node.js. I really wanted to use swift. But the swift framework, called perfect, crahes on my mac. So I decided to use my own framework. It integrates well with my deep learning library.

Re: Ask HN: What's your go-to stack for prototyping web applications and MVPs?

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Post by adnanh »

JohnnySpaghetti wrote: post #16
adnanh wrote: post #14

I love Ruby and for the quick web MVPs I use sinatra + sequel. I try to avoid JavaScript if possible... Setting up the JavaScript build/transpile system, installing dependencies, fighting the dependency version hell drains all the hype and productivity from my soul...

I agree that dealing with the front-end can be a drain sometimes, but unfortunately it's necessary for many types of MVPs that require a rich UI. Do you have any such MVPs or projects you could share?

https://github.com/adnanh/rye - simple url-catcher on our slack channel (live at http://rye.hajdarevic.net/) (Using slack outgoing webhooks + https://github.com/adnanh/webhook for catching the webhook and running a simple shell script that parses the slack message and extracts all URLs and then hits rye with curl to store and crawl them)

https://github.com/adnanh/mikro - my personal micro blog that I mainly use to store interesting links (live at http://blog.hajdarevic.net/)

I'm currently working with a friend of mine on an MVP that we plan to offer as a service, and the source code is not open, but the stack is: React (JSX + ES6 + Webpack) + Tachyons for frontend, Ruby (Grape + Sequel) for frontend API, Golang for workers and processing, PostgreSQL as a DB and Redis for caching

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