Ask HN: It's Jan 1 and you're building a new Saas app: What framework do you pick?

#1

Post by molotv » Wed, Dec 31, 2014, 3:26 PM UTC

Title says it (mostly) all.

If you're starting to build a brand new web-based Saas app (responsive desktop web + mobile) heading into 2015 what are you using to build it on and why?

I know what my default go-to would be, but I'm looking to get input on what's worth looking into if I'm not beholden to anything legacy.

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#2

Post by jbrooksuk » Wed, Dec 31, 2014, 3:31 PM UTC

Laravel 4.3 for me.

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#3

Post by arun057 » Wed, Dec 31, 2014, 4:14 PM UTC

Sails.js or Rails

Spring / Play if java/scala

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#4

Post by user3487 » Wed, Dec 31, 2014, 4:15 PM UTC

Django for backend React JS for frontend work

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#5

Post by lemcoe9 » Wed, Dec 31, 2014, 4:21 PM UTC

jbrooksuk wrote: post #2

Laravel 4.3 for me.

This will probably attract trolls.

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#6

Post by iqonik » Wed, Dec 31, 2014, 4:39 PM UTC

It depends on what your goal is. Is it to make money? Go with your default and get an MVP out by the 10th Jan. Seriously. You can always rewrite it once you have paying customers and know it's not a complete waste of your time.

If it is to learn, I am trying out Ember JS atm and it seems pretty good.

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#7

Post by abuiles » Wed, Dec 31, 2014, 4:42 PM UTC

iqonik wrote: post #6

It depends on what your goal is. Is it to make money? Go with your default and get an MVP out by the 10th Jan. Seriously. You can always rewrite it once you have paying customers and know it's not a complete waste of your time. If it is to learn, I am trying out Ember JS atm and it seems pretty good.

+1 on this, Ember + Rails is a really cool combination, also check http://ember-cli.com/ (and if you want to learn Ember, I wrote a book https://leanpub.com/ember-cli-101).

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#8

Post by ww520 » Wed, Dec 31, 2014, 4:49 PM UTC

For a Saas web app, HTML/CSS/JS/Bootstrap/Less/JQuery/KnockoutJS/ReactJS on the frontend and Ninja at the backend.

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#9

Post by larryweya » Wed, Dec 31, 2014, 4:50 PM UTC

Already building one on Laravel 4.x and React for the front-end. Have a background with Django and my personal favorite Pyramid but Laravel really cuts down the boilerplate for me.

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#10

Post by mmgutz » Wed, Dec 31, 2014, 4:58 PM UTC

golang + vue.js