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Re: Ask HN: Fastest/easiest framework to build a web application in 2020?

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Post by theluketowers »

I'd recommend taking a look at October CMS (https://octobercms.com/). It looks pretty simple from the intro video but if you take a bit of time getting to know it better you'll be blown away at how quickly and easily you can get something up and running that remains flexible & scalable enough to grow pretty big.

Disclaimer, biased as I am the lead maintainer for the project ;)

Re: Ask HN: Fastest/easiest framework to build a web application in 2020?

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Post by Nextgrid »

A lot of answers suggest a Node.js stack. I’d like to say that the problem with Node is that there isn’t really a “batteries included” stack you can choose from, unlike other languages.

You can indeed use Express.js for the HTTP part, but you’ll need to pick an ORM, a rest framework, etc and make sure they integrate properly which might include writing “glue” code to bring them together.

Unless you’re knowledgeable about Javascript I suggest you avoid this option and instead pick another language you know that happens to have a batteries-included framework like Django, Laravel or Rails just to make development faster as these frameworks include everything you need out of the box and are tested to work well out of the box.

Re: Ask HN: Fastest/easiest framework to build a web application in 2020?

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Post by nickthemagicman »

mterrel wrote: post #4

My personal picks would be: - React for the front end ( https://reactjs.org ) - Node.js for your back end ( https://nodejs.org ) - Deploy using Adapt, which ties your front and back end together using React-like components. ( https://adaptjs.org ). - (Optional) If this project is larger or commercial, definitely use TypeScript on all 3 of the above ( http://www.typescriptlang.org/ ) [Disclosure: I'm a maintainer of A…

I have never been a big fan of javascript on the backend(or the frontend for that matter but we have no choice).

A 200 l.o.c. promise chain vs a 10 liner in Python or PHP or Ruby?

Just feels dirty to me.

Re: Ask HN: Fastest/easiest framework to build a web application in 2020?

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Post by nickthemagicman »

franga2000 wrote: post #25

Django. Nothing has ever surpassed Django for me. It is soooo much faster to prototype with than anything I've ever used (especially when you know all the amazing shortcuts, but that's not a requirement as their docs are incredibly good). It can do anything you could possibly want to do with a standard web app and if you really want to do crazy Javascript things you can always just use it as an extremely powerful bac…

How is deploying Django? Is it easy to integrate with Nginx or Apache?

I know PHP is super easy but wasn't sure how it was for Python frameworks?

Re: Ask HN: Fastest/easiest framework to build a web application in 2020?

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Post by nickthemagicman »

maremmano wrote: post #15

I really like Flask at the moment. It seems to satisfy all your prerequisites.

How easy is it to integrate python frameworks with nginx or apache for deployment?

I love Python but have only deployed PHP apps.

Re: Ask HN: Fastest/easiest framework to build a web application in 2020?

#40

Post by nickthemagicman »

theluketowers wrote: post #34

I'd recommend taking a look at October CMS ( https://octobercms.com/ ). It looks pretty simple from the intro video but if you take a bit of time getting to know it better you'll be blown away at how quickly and easily you can get something up and running that remains flexible & scalable enough to grow pretty big. Disclaimer, biased as I am the lead maintainer for the project ;)

This looks very cool and intriguing. I see it's built on Laravel which I love. I see it adds themes which is dope! How else does it improve on Laravel?
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