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Re: Ask HN: What framework/platform do you use for app development?

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Post by burntrelish1273 »

Mobile/desktop:

ionic, electron hybrid native/web apps start. Eventually native when unified-platform dev technical debt exceeds benefit.

Web preferred:

FE: Vue, TypeScript, Ava, jsverify, brunch

Surprisingly, brunch scales really well despite being less popular.

BE: Phoenix (Elixir/Erlang), Postgres, Redis, CouchBase, Neo4j, ElasticSearch, excheck

DevOps/SRE: C, Go and Ruby

Really interested in flexible constraint-oriented FE like Layx which allows for specifying layout as a system of equations. It's closer to many desktop auto-layout UI constraints, but programmic instead of pointy-clicky property editors.

https://github.com/layxlang/layx

Re: Ask HN: What framework/platform do you use for app development?

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Post by flukus »

For my personal stuff lately I've been using GTK and ncurses, re familiarizing myself with c after 10 years in higher level languages. The simplicity of c and ncurses is simply amazing, this is how programming should be taught to beginners.

At work, mostly WinForms (c#) and some MVC with the godforsaken devexpress framework.

Re: Ask HN: What framework/platform do you use for app development?

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Post by GeneralMaximus »

alistproducer2 wrote: post #5

I usually start with WordPress because of the mature plugin ecosystem. Most really difficult-to-implement features are available as free or cheap (<$100) plugins. Couple that with the fact that most plugins are designed with extensibility in mind via WP's hooks and actions (callback system) and there's not much I haven't been able to get done in a fraction of the time compared to starting on a different platform.

What are the kinds of things you're building with WordPress?

I'm curious because I run a couple of WordPress blogs, and I recently realized I can do a lot with the platform beyond just blogging.

Re: Ask HN: What framework/platform do you use for app development?

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Post by alistproducer2 »

GeneralMaximus wrote: post #13
alistproducer2 wrote: post #5

I usually start with WordPress because of the mature plugin ecosystem. Most really difficult-to-implement features are available as free or cheap (<$100) plugins. Couple that with the fact that most plugins are designed with extensibility in mind via WP's hooks and actions (callback system) and there's not much I haven't been able to get done in a fraction of the time compared to starting on a different platform.

What are the kinds of things you're building with WordPress? I'm curious because I run a couple of WordPress blogs, and I recently realized I can do a lot with the platform beyond just blogging.

I've used WP as an access control middleware on a electronic health records project and I'm currently using it to build a electronic contract SaaS platform. As a concrete example with my e-contracting app, I was able to get account management (changing passwords, deleting accounts, etc.) by using the Ultimate Member plugin. It would've taken me at least a week of coding to build this from scratch.

Re: Ask HN: What framework/platform do you use for app development?

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Post by GeneralMaximus »

alistproducer2 wrote: post #15
GeneralMaximus wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are the kinds of things you're building with WordPress? I'm curious because I run a couple of WordPress blogs, and I recently realized I can do a lot with the platform beyond just blogging.

I've used WP as an access control middleware on a electronic health records project and I'm currently using it to build a electronic contract SaaS platform. As a concrete example with my e-contracting app, I was able to get account management (changing passwords, deleting accounts, etc.) by using the Ultimate Member plugin. It would've taken me at least a week of coding to build this from scratch.

Thanks for your answer. I would've never thought of using Wordpress for those applications.

Where would you direct someone interested in learning more about how to extend Wordpress with plugins, themes, taxonomies, custom types, etc.? I'd mostly like to use it in CMS-like roles for personal projects.

Re: Ask HN: What framework/platform do you use for app development?

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Post by Toast_ »

GeneralMaximus wrote: post #13
alistproducer2 wrote: post #5

I usually start with WordPress because of the mature plugin ecosystem. Most really difficult-to-implement features are available as free or cheap (<$100) plugins. Couple that with the fact that most plugins are designed with extensibility in mind via WP's hooks and actions (callback system) and there's not much I haven't been able to get done in a fraction of the time compared to starting on a different platform.

What are the kinds of things you're building with WordPress? I'm curious because I run a couple of WordPress blogs, and I recently realized I can do a lot with the platform beyond just blogging.

I'm currently using it as an aggregator (displaying scraped and scored data).

Re: Ask HN: What framework/platform do you use for app development?

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Post by alistproducer2 »

GeneralMaximus wrote: post #16
alistproducer2 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've used WP as an access control middleware on a electronic health records project and I'm currently using it to build a electronic contract SaaS platform. As a concrete example with my e-contracting app, I was able to get account management (changing passwords, deleting accounts, etc.) by using the Ultimate Member plugin. It would've taken me at least a week of coding to build this from scratch.

Thanks for your answer. I would've never thought of using Wordpress for those applications. Where would you direct someone interested in learning more about how to extend Wordpress with plugins, themes, taxonomies, custom types, etc.? I'd mostly like to use it in CMS-like roles for personal projects.

I've learned how to build and extend plugins via WordPress.org. I've also spent a lot of time just digging through the source. Combine that with SO and that's been how I've come up to speed. I do remember a good book from back in the day called "digging into WordPress"
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