Ask HN: CRUD Apps in 2020? What are the current best practices and architectures

5 points by teptoria 5 years ago | 2 comments

5 years ago, the answer to doing a great CRUD app would be Django + SQL Relational DB. Now we live in the ever-changing age of serverless, with countless DB structures, web frameworks and system architectures.

In your experience (or if you have benchmarks or anecdotes feel free to share), what's the best way to structure + architect a CRUD webapp? And any advice/best practices you can suggest?

I'd welcome any specifics on software choices + why you came to the decision to use that stack/arch :)

QuadrupleA 5 years ago |

Just realizing now, "CRUD app" is almost meaninglessly vague - just means an app that reads & writes data, which is almost every app. Calendar, contacts, email client, image editor, blog, comment section, forum - all CRUD apps, as they focus on reading & writing specific types of data.

But obviously there's a world of difference in interface, usability, aesthetics, performance, good writing, security etc. The CRUD part is the simple part.

I guess there's some spectrum between a dumb unspecialized list of table editors ala phpMyAdmin, versus hyper specialized interfaces like game engines that manipulate scene data, triangle data, player inventory, physics entities etc.

tjpnz 5 years ago |

I would still choose the same stack I was using 5 or more years ago. Python (Django or Flask) or Rails with either Postgres or MySQL - whichever your organization is most familiar with. Avoid NoSQL unless you have a very good reason for it but even then Postgres should serve you just fine.

Note that YMMV with the above if adopting serverless.