Getting back into the web dev – overwhelmed by framework choices

2 pointsby SOMMS8 lat temu2 comments

Long story short: I'm an experienced developer who's been 'out-of-the-game' for the past 5 years doing things other than web development.

I am making a mobile app and need to make its web-side counter part...but am overwhelmed by the sheer number of web frameworks out there. Is Rails still the king? I see a lot of love for Node. Also...lots of PHP based stacks out there. Spring boot?

Things I am looking for in a framework: -authentication plug-in -basic CRUD -basic NOSQL -ability to attache images -beautification (like Bootstrap...something other than stock controls) -an active community and/or documentation where I can go for help

Bonus: I like the idea of single page web-apps like Angular or React. Is there a back-end framework that works particularly well with these?

Thanks,

PS-yes I've googled this question but honestly it yielded more questions than answers!

2 comments

cimmanom8 lat temu

Any back end will work fine with those front-end frameworks. You just have to be able to build out an HTTP API. Rails is still perfectly viable, just less dominant than 5 years ago.

If you’re building this thing to have it built, I’d say go with what you know - at least on the back end where what you know is still relevant. Learning new front end paradigms will be enough of a challenge in itself.

If you’re building it primarily as a learning project, then go ahead and pick up something new for the back end too.

zeroprox8 lat temu

It really depends on the programming languages that you're comfortable with. The biggest one that I personally would suggest is the .net ecosystem. You can use Xamarin to build your mobile apps, asp.net/asp.net core to build your web application/rest api, and a lot of the things that you're looking for can easily be added using nugets (.nets package manager) all by knowing C#. If you like single page applications look into https://blazor.net/ which is a pretty new SPA framework (still in early testing/concept) using C#/Web assembly on the front end. Like I said personally .net is one of my favorite stacks. The other is Django which is also a great framework for building web apps/apis. Recently I've been playing around with a web ecosystem in golang called Buffalo which seems pretty promising if you like go.