Ask HN: What stack should I use to build my basic web app as of 3/29/18

Re:Ask HN: What stack should I use to build my basic web app... by tga on Thursday March 29, 2018 @04:02AM (#16705357)

http://djangoframework.com is overall one of the best documented + most stable web frameworks out there.

Besides the actual functionality, that you can also get from smaller libraries, you want a framework because it gives you standard go-to solutions for many common questions you encounter when making a basic, relational database backed application (database access, database migrations, templating, forms, validation, caching, translation, etc.)

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Re:Ask HN: What stack should I use to build my basic web app... by piker on Thursday March 29, 2018 @04:13AM (#16705397)

https://www.djangoproject.com/ ?

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Re:Ask HN: What stack should I use to build my basic web app... by IshKebab on Thursday March 29, 2018 @04:23AM (#16705430)

I've used Django and I liked it but it really was quite slow.

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Re:Ask HN: What stack should I use to build my basic web app... by collyw on Thursday March 29, 2018 @04:54AM (#16705547)

Really, I have been using Django for a while now. Its rarely the Django code that is the bottleneck, usually it needs some DB tuning.

(If you don't know the ORM well, its easy to let it generate a LOT of queries, have you added django-debug-toolbar to your project to see what it is generating?)

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Re:Ask HN: What stack should I use to build my basic web app... by Doxin on Thursday March 29, 2018 @04:41AM (#16705493)

If you feel like django is too big you'll probably like flask. It has the same functionality, except everything but responding to http requests is separated into 3rd party packages. Makes for a really lightweight framework if you don't need much.

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