Ask HN: First mobile side-project: What stack to choose in 2019?

Re:Ask HN: First mobile side-project: What stack to choose i... by akudha on Thursday January 03, 2019 @09:24AM (#18815264)

DBs I've shunned most of my career. So some learning curve can't be evaded.

Assuming you're doing a small application with standard features, you should be able to pick up the basics over a weekend. It is a different story if you have to scale to tons of users, improve performance etc, but for a normal application, designing a bunch of tables shouldn't be hard.

The backend layer for me is unchartered territory

This might take a bit more work than the DB. My you know JS, so maybe you could pick nodeJS for the backend?

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Re:Ask HN: First mobile side-project: What stack to choose i... by louisswiss on Thursday January 03, 2019 @11:25AM (#18816274)

Could try something like Firebase/Firestore and Cloud Functions to replace any work you'd have to do on the backend?

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