Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up quickly in 2018?

Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up ... by strken on Sunday June 03, 2018 @01:27AM (#17218047)

Phoenix loses my vote for being quick to set up for a web application, because last time I used it, it didn't have a good authentication framework that worked with JSON APIs. What took ten minutes to set up using Devise in Rails took me two days using Coherence in Phoenix.

Unless that's changed since I last tried Phoenix, I'd be hesitant to use it in the same niche as Rails.

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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up ... by mercer on Sunday June 03, 2018 @06:22AM (#17218880)

I'm a huge fan of Phoenix, in part because it addresses the main issue I had with Rails (too much magic).

But I do agree that losing the huge ecosystem of gems is a significant downside. Hopefully that'll change over time, because other than that, Phoenix really feels like the next iteration of Rails to me.

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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up ... by mooreds on Sunday June 03, 2018 @07:51AM (#17219107)

That's my biggest gripe with Phoenix--so much good stuff can't be used. I understand that sometimes moving on the next thing requires this, but man, it isn't just Rails that has tremendous value when creating a web app. The entire ecosystem has so much good "drop in"/"near drop in" functionality.

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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite way of getting a web app up ... by arrel on Sunday June 03, 2018 @11:11AM (#17219895)

Guardian has worked great for us for JWT auth

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