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

3 points by wideareanetwork 5 years ago | 7 comments

jessikat 5 years ago |

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.

sandreas 5 years ago |

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)

bellttyler 5 years ago |

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.

Apaec 5 years ago | |

Note that this means 77 requests per second, which is not impressive at all.

200000000/(30x24x60x60) ~= 77.16

0x6A75616E 5 years ago |

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.

ramitmittal 5 years ago |

I want to try postgrest.

digitaltrees 5 years ago |

Rails.