Ask HN: What are the best web tools to build basic web apps as of October 2016?

Re:Ask HN: What are the best web tools to build basic web ap... by renke1 on Sunday October 23, 2016 @03:04PM (#12774885)

Frontend: TypeScript, React, MobX

There is (in my opinion) no reason not go with TypeScript. It's strictly better than ES6. React and MobX because of their simplicity.

Backend: Go

No particular reason to choose Go other than it's fun. TypeScript with Node is also a good choice.

Edit: I am talking about SPAs.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best web tools to build basic web ap... by slig on Sunday October 23, 2016 @03:14PM (#12774948)

Recently I've built, as a side project and soon-to-be open source, a micro SPA [1] to learn React+Redux and for the interface I chose Semantic-UI [2]. There's a official React integration [3] that is really good and easy to use, and since I wanted to mix pure HTML pages and the app, it's ideal to use a React UI framework that doesn't bundle all the CSS into the components.

The Semantic UI React integration also doesn't need jQuery, which is a nice bonus.

I agree with the TypeScript suggestion. It's so good, and the VS Code integration is awesome.

[1] https://javascriptobfuscator.herokuapp.com/ [2] http://semantic-ui.com/ [3] http://react.semantic-ui.com/introduction

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best web tools to build basic web ap... by babbeloski on Sunday October 23, 2016 @03:40PM (#12775064)

React and mobx is like clojurescript's Reagent library, which I think is the next level after react-redux. It's like pseudocode, here's a direct translation of reagent's clock example: https://gist.github.com/lsdafjklsd/096f8657306a86832e6df1109.... This essense lib is just a unified api for mobx and react, I've been using it to teach people javascript. https://github.com/lsdafjklsd/essence

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