Ask HN: Hunting for a Framework

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Pushpin

Vapor[0] based on Swift. Advantage of this is that you don't have to evaluate multiple frameworks for Swift and suffer paralysis by analysis. All the Swift community is behind one framework. The next is Actix[1] based on Rust. There are many frameworks in Rust and most of them have not reached 1.0 And which framework will survive becomes a question. Other not so well-known is Wt[2] based on C++. This actually is created for programmers who are not web developers. The development experience is similar to desktop app development like Qt. If that is not acceptable then Django[3], based on Python, is the one that will be good for you. For the front-end I would recommend Flutter[4]. As much as I dislike getting tied to a single company for whom the framework is not their bread-and-butter, I don't see any other viable options to Flutter that will cover all web, mobile and desktop out of the box. For databases, I would recommend BedrockDB[5], if you are not averse to SQLite. Or FoundationDB[6], if you want NoSQL. But if you are not concerned about horizontal scalability or okay with self-managing database availability, then PostgreSQL[7] is a very good option. For push notifications, PushPin[8] is a good option. [0] https://vapor.codes [1] https://actix.rs [2] https://webtoolkit.eu [3] https://www.djangoproject.com [4] https://flutter.dev [5] https://bedrockdb.com [6] https://www.foundationdb.org [7] https://postgresql.org [8] https://pushpin.org.

#Developer Tools #App Development #Cloud Computing 9 social mentions

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PostgreSQL

Vapor[0] based on Swift. Advantage of this is that you don't have to evaluate multiple frameworks for Swift and suffer paralysis by analysis. All the Swift community is behind one framework. The next is Actix[1] based on Rust. There are many frameworks in Rust and most of them have not reached 1.0 And which framework will survive becomes a question. Other not so well-known is Wt[2] based on C++. This actually is created for programmers who are not web developers. The development experience is similar to desktop app development like Qt. If that is not acceptable then Django[3], based on Python, is the one that will be good for you. For the front-end I would recommend Flutter[4]. As much as I dislike getting tied to a single company for whom the framework is not their bread-and-butter, I don't see any other viable options to Flutter that will cover all web, mobile and desktop out of the box. For databases, I would recommend BedrockDB[5], if you are not averse to SQLite. Or FoundationDB[6], if you want NoSQL. But if you are not concerned about horizontal scalability or okay with self-managing database availability, then PostgreSQL[7] is a very good option. For push notifications, PushPin[8] is a good option. [0] https://vapor.codes [1] https://actix.rs [2] https://webtoolkit.eu [3] https://www.djangoproject.com [4] https://flutter.dev [5] https://bedrockdb.com [6] https://www.foundationdb.org [7] https://postgresql.org [8] https://pushpin.org.

#Databases #Relational Databases #NoSQL Databases 15 social mentions

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Flutter.dev

Vapor[0] based on Swift. Advantage of this is that you don't have to evaluate multiple frameworks for Swift and suffer paralysis by analysis. All the Swift community is behind one framework. The next is Actix[1] based on Rust. There are many frameworks in Rust and most of them have not reached 1.0 And which framework will survive becomes a question. Other not so well-known is Wt[2] based on C++. This actually is created for programmers who are not web developers. The development experience is similar to desktop app development like Qt. If that is not acceptable then Django[3], based on Python, is the one that will be good for you. For the front-end I would recommend Flutter[4]. As much as I dislike getting tied to a single company for whom the framework is not their bread-and-butter, I don't see any other viable options to Flutter that will cover all web, mobile and desktop out of the box. For databases, I would recommend BedrockDB[5], if you are not averse to SQLite. Or FoundationDB[6], if you want NoSQL. But if you are not concerned about horizontal scalability or okay with self-managing database availability, then PostgreSQL[7] is a very good option. For push notifications, PushPin[8] is a good option. [0] https://vapor.codes [1] https://actix.rs [2] https://webtoolkit.eu [3] https://www.djangoproject.com [4] https://flutter.dev [5] https://bedrockdb.com [6] https://www.foundationdb.org [7] https://postgresql.org [8] https://pushpin.org.

#Development Tools #Application Builder #Mobile App Development 340 social mentions

4

Actix

Vapor[0] based on Swift. Advantage of this is that you don't have to evaluate multiple frameworks for Swift and suffer paralysis by analysis. All the Swift community is behind one framework. The next is Actix[1] based on Rust. There are many frameworks in Rust and most of them have not reached 1.0 And which framework will survive becomes a question. Other not so well-known is Wt[2] based on C++. This actually is created for programmers who are not web developers. The development experience is similar to desktop app development like Qt. If that is not acceptable then Django[3], based on Python, is the one that will be good for you. For the front-end I would recommend Flutter[4]. As much as I dislike getting tied to a single company for whom the framework is not their bread-and-butter, I don't see any other viable options to Flutter that will cover all web, mobile and desktop out of the box. For databases, I would recommend BedrockDB[5], if you are not averse to SQLite. Or FoundationDB[6], if you want NoSQL. But if you are not concerned about horizontal scalability or okay with self-managing database availability, then PostgreSQL[7] is a very good option. For push notifications, PushPin[8] is a good option. [0] https://vapor.codes [1] https://actix.rs [2] https://webtoolkit.eu [3] https://www.djangoproject.com [4] https://flutter.dev [5] https://bedrockdb.com [6] https://www.foundationdb.org [7] https://postgresql.org [8] https://pushpin.org.

#Developer Tools #Web Frameworks #Programming Language 79 social mentions

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FeathersJS

Feathers (https://feathersjs.com/) ticks a lot of your boxes.

#Web Frameworks #JavaScript Framework #MVC Framework 38 social mentions

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Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails https://rubyonrails.org/ seems to meet all of these requirements: - ActiveRecord is wonderful for data schemas: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_migrations.html - ActiveRecord form validations is excellent and defined only on the model - Scaffolds automatically generate create/read/update/delete endpoints: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/v3.2/getting_started.html#getting-up-and-running-quickly-with-scaffolding - Websocket-driven updates provided by Hotwire / Turbo Streams: https://turbo.hotwired.dev/handbook/introduction - Authorization and Authentication by Devise: https://github.com/heartcombo/devise HAML is wonderful as a templating language as well.

#Developer Tools #Web Frameworks #Frameworks (Full Stack) 117 social mentions

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Devise

Ruby on Rails https://rubyonrails.org/ seems to meet all of these requirements: - ActiveRecord is wonderful for data schemas: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_migrations.html - ActiveRecord form validations is excellent and defined only on the model - Scaffolds automatically generate create/read/update/delete endpoints: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/v3.2/getting_started.html#getting-up-and-running-quickly-with-scaffolding - Websocket-driven updates provided by Hotwire / Turbo Streams: https://turbo.hotwired.dev/handbook/introduction - Authorization and Authentication by Devise: https://github.com/heartcombo/devise HAML is wonderful as a templating language as well.

#Identity And Access Management #Identity Provider #SSO 40 social mentions

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Stacktape

- To make the configuration of your Infrastructure/Packaging/Deployments 97% easier, have a look at https://stacktape.com (disclaimer: I'm a founder).

#Cloud Computing #Cloud Hosting #Developer Tools 28 social mentions

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Anvil.works

Pretty sure anvil is open-source now. https://anvil.works/ open source. https://anvil.works/open-source I should be a paid for how much I recommend looking at them, but I've never used it for anything production.

#Developer Tools #App Development #Python Tools 94 social mentions

> I've often wanted a VB6 equivalent for the web, but open source. That's Gambas, it can create web apps. https://gambas.sourceforge.net Some more links here: https://github.com/wekan/hx/tree/main/prototypes/ui/gambas.

#Programming Language #OOP #Development Tools 4 social mentions