Ask HN: What stack would you use to build a CRUD web app in 2018?

Post by mercer » Sun, Mar 04, 2018, 11:54 AM UTC

zengid wrote: post #120

jgoodhcg wrote: post #107

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I don't think that quote justifies your love of jQuery. The keywords are "some" and "sprinkled in". In my experience jQuery always trends towards a huge mess the more it is used. Sure, it could be used but it really shouldn't. Interacting with the DOM in a procedural way, and storing state on the DOM is always going to be harder to manage than using a reactive pattern when you trend towards more complexity.

It's s CRUD app! You don't need everything to be a SPA with a heavy weight framework!

Post by mercer » Sun, Mar 04, 2018, 12:17 PM UTC

gingerlime wrote: post #37

As a developer working with Rails (and previously Django), I'd love to try Phoenix/Elixir now. I'd probably find lots of great reasons why it's the best choice. And I won't be wrong. As an entrepreneur however, I would opt for Wordpress unless there's a clear, strong reason not to. I know it's a bit heretic here on HN, and I dislike PHP and working with Wordpress isn't fun at all. But they take the concept of "Batter…

Post by mooreds » Sun, Mar 04, 2018, 12:55 PM UTC

astockwell wrote: post #82

iambateman wrote: post #71

For those of you saying WordPress...could you elaborate a bit more? I'm willing to shelve my pride in favor of speed, but it seems like there are very few guides to building a web app in WP. HelloBar from 2012 seems to still be one of the top results. Could you elaborate on your approach to setting up a WP CRUD app? What are your go-to tools?

There’s a couple ways to do it, depending on how much you do/don’t want it to look like WordPress. In both scenarios you have to mentally translate what you want to do into WP architecture (e.g. you want a new model? In WP that’s a custom post type, etc.). The “easier” way is to create custom post types for each model you want, and use Advanced Custom Fields (plugin) for the data fields. Users log into the WP backend…

Post by _-david-_ » Sun, Mar 04, 2018, 5:19 PM UTC

shmooth wrote: post #151

arenaninja wrote: post #47

Funny, I was writing something to manage orders for a side business that looks promising and I started building it with Node+Express. It took some hours (3-4) but then I realized I haven't deployed a Node application to production and I'm not even sure how to keep the process alive forever, how updates would work, etc. I re-wrote it last night in the LAMP stack in about 30 minutes. So I would write a CRUD app in PHP…

i've been an occasional defender of php, but darn...those backslashes. and, symfony is the worst garbage in the history of the planet. worst mistake ever.

Post by nickjj » Sun, Mar 04, 2018, 6:20 PM UTC

stuxnet79 wrote: post #157

swat535 wrote: post #135

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Or.. github.. or gitlab..

Amazing ... are Shopify, Github and Gitlab using a similar stack at their scale? I feel less bad about not using an exotic stack now.