If you were going to set up a server-backed website, what language/library/framework would you use these days (& why)? It's been several millennia since I looked at Rails, Sinatra, Django etc...
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Platform suggestions like Heroku or Google App Engine also very welcome.
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Replying to @michael_nielsen
Heroku is great, use it For code, I'd probably go with Rails or Node; I've enjoyed both. Python is a fine language but I'm not a fan of Django. Java is OK but always feels bloated (haven't used it since 2009 though). Happy to elaborate on any points if useful!
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Replying to @jasoncrawford @michael_nielsen
FWIW, I haven't tried Go, Scala, or C# yet!
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Replying to @jasoncrawford @michael_nielsen
Front end, everyone seems to be going with React these days. Probably best for community/momentum alone.
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Do you have a sense of how Heroku works out for price?
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Replying to @michael_nielsen
How big/complex is the app? For small hobby projects it's quite affordable
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Replying to @jasoncrawford
Perhaps a better question is: how easy would it be to move? My guess is that it's very likely there will be sharp peaks in useage (certainly > 10^5, maybe 10^6 pageviews in a day). But beyond that, no surety.
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It's easy to scale Heroku up/down and they prorate to the second If you have to move, you're not locked in. Nothing proprietary that you depend on. I have not actually tried this though
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