| >>analysis paralysis trying to decide on a stack. Yeah, I went through that a few years ago. I went to "TodoMVC.com" and started going over their demos. Spent over a month on that and then a couple more weeks fretting over which one to use. I finally realized I didn't want to invest in any of them. Instead I use these off the shelf toolkits: Bootstrap for the front end and jQuery, Mustache.js, Accounting.js, Chart.js, and PouchDB.js on the client side along with CouchDB and a bit Perl or Python where needed on the server side. This is really a pretty sweet way to go. First off, I didn't have to invest in learning how use a "framework" or set up anything on my web VPS except a web server (Apache) and the CouchDB database (also made by Apache). It's really pretty impressive how much those tookits can do, and how easy they are to use, and how well they work together. That is a really powerful toolset that's rock solid. PouchDB.js makes working with CouchDB so sweet and easy, and you can configure it to use the web browser's built-in IndexedDB so you don't even need a CouchDB to get started building your app. You change one line of code to switch from the web browser DB to the CouchDB. And you can install CouchDB on your desktop PC and point your app at it. When you do that, and configure a "Service Worker" for your app you can make an "Offline-First/Local-First" app that runs at near native app speed that can "Live-Sync" with your Cloud based CouchDB on your web server. The real beauty in this set up is the flexibility. You can drop in any JS toolkit you need to add features and mix it up with plain vanilla JS to create feature rich "single page" web apps that are easy to maintain and use very little bandwidth. Unless your working with huge amounts of data you can run the web server and the CouchDB on a $20 a month DigitalOcean VPS and it will never break a sweat. It's worth checking out PouchDB.com and going over their intro and API docs to get an idea of what PouchDB.js does. They have a demo "Todo app" there you can build to get a feel for it. I have an app you can also check out at https://pugilis.com/app.html It's a boxing scorecard and boxer database app. |