Ask HN: Which front-end tool would you use to build an e-commerce web app today?

Re:Ask HN: Which front-end tool would you use to build an e-... by gregopet on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @12:45PM (#31507026)

Vue.js 3 + Vert.x backend (plus Nuxt if I needed SSR). If less interactivity were required, Rails (or rather Grails) and Alpine.js. But it's not that these technologies are inherently better than something else, I'd simply go with what I know & have had positive experience with. If you don't have any web experience, try to find a stack at least related to something you do know.

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Re:Ask HN: Which front-end tool would you use to build an e-... by r0b05 on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @01:11PM (#31507402)

True, it does depend on familiarity. I haven't used Vue but it seems like a decent option.

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Re:Ask HN: Which front-end tool would you use to build an e-... by olavgg on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @02:30PM (#31508587)

Grails gsp and asset pipeline plugin is nice. Easy to use and great performance.

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Re:Ask HN: Which front-end tool would you use to build an e-... by metadat on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @01:41PM (#31507874)

What is SSR? Server-Side Rendering?

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Re:Ask HN: Which front-end tool would you use to build an e-... by gregopet on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @02:38PM (#31508683)

Yes - especially important for low end devices, it improves the first load after which the app behaves like a regular SPA.

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Re:Ask HN: Which front-end tool would you use to build an e-... by throw_m239339 on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @09:23PM (#31513121)

SSR has absolutely nothing to do with computing performance, it's about network speed and SEO. Your react/angular site isn't going to run faster on low end smartphones or computers with SSR if you end up loading the entire react/angular app anyway.

If you really care about low end devices, you would stick to HTML and use Javascript only when necessary and the least possible amount of it.

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Re:Ask HN: Which front-end tool would you use to build an e-... by eyelidlessness on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @11:14PM (#31513988)

> SSR has absolutely nothing to do with computing performance, it's about network speed and SEO.

This is something I’d normally whisk by, but it’s bad in an Ask thread. It definitely has to a lot to do with performance. Even the worst-tuned apps are readable if they’re served as HTML and waiting for JS to become interactive. Better tuned apps SSR and follow the rest of your advice one way or another. Rendering nothing on the server is basically skipping performance as a first experience entirely.

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