Re:Ask HN: Modern stacks and frameworks for fast web app dev...
by purephase on Sunday May 05, 2013 @12:34PM
(#5658871)
Another vote for Meteor. To me, it looks the most promising for a full JS stack framework for prototyping and rapid development.
As with all things though, what's new and edge may not necessarily scale or be supported in the long-term so caveat emptor (I think we need a developer specific latin phrase here). Once a service/site has become successful, key considerations such as community, active development, roadmaps, extendability etc. become paramount.
For those, you really can't beat some of the time-tested communities around PHP (Symfony/Cake), Python (Django/Flask/Bottle), Ruby (Rails/Sinatra) and Java (Spring).
I'd say that Node.js is entering this space from the backend perspective, but the front-end JS frameworks are an open battlefield right now (which is awesome, just fragile).
As with all things though, what's new and edge may not necessarily scale or be supported in the long-term so caveat emptor (I think we need a developer specific latin phrase here). Once a service/site has become successful, key considerations such as community, active development, roadmaps, extendability etc. become paramount.
For those, you really can't beat some of the time-tested communities around PHP (Symfony/Cake), Python (Django/Flask/Bottle), Ruby (Rails/Sinatra) and Java (Spring).
I'd say that Node.js is entering this space from the backend perspective, but the front-end JS frameworks are an open battlefield right now (which is awesome, just fragile).