Ask HN: What web application server back end would you use for a new project?

by wideareanetwork on 4/29/2021, 12:54:04 AM with 7 comments

  • by jessikat on 4/29/2021, 1:08:10 AM

    ASP.NET Core, it's a great ecosystem with great tooling, and C# is fantastic language to work with. I develop on Windows, deploy to Linux with Docker, docs are great too.

  • by sandreas on 4/29/2021, 4:39:06 AM

    This strongly depends on the purpose...

      How is it sized?
  Can it get bigger?
  Is it realtime?
  Is it Web / App / Other frontend?
  What backend languages / tech is supported?
    I always wanted to try or tried successfully:

      SignalR (C#)
  Flask (Python)
  Gorilla (Golang)
  Revel (Golang)
  API Platform (PHP)
  Hapi (js)
  Express (js)
  Actix-web (rust)

  • by bellttyler on 4/29/2021, 6:16:55 PM

    I've been really happy with express (Node). It has scaled really well for my company.

    Currently processing almost 200 million requests a month on a cheap $25/mo heroku dyno.

  • by 0x6A75616E on 4/29/2021, 1:08:22 AM

    I've been wanting to try nhost, but if it's something you'd want to put in prod fairly quickly, I'd go with Firebase.

  • by ramitmittal on 4/29/2021, 3:27:30 AM

    I want to try postgrest.

  • by digitaltrees on 4/29/2021, 3:30:00 AM

    Rails.