Poll: What Web Application Framework do you use?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2891922

by gamma_raj • 15 years ago

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kls2• 15 years ago

I have abandoned server side frameworks all together, with the exception of a REST toolkit now days if you are building a web application the client side toolkits coupled with a REST service layer offer a much more robust development platform as well as provides a more usable and better performing end product.

sixtofour• 15 years ago

But would you recommend that approach for a beginner, or is it better to start with a framework so you don't have to think of everything, and evolve your understanding?

How did you decide on your approach?

kls2• 15 years ago

Yes I would because it is where the web is heading. I would adopt Dojo + jQuery or backbone + jQuery and a REST layer. I personally use JAX-RS because I do a lot of enterprise apps and Java is entrenched there, but there are REST libs for most major platforms now.

byoung2• 15 years ago

I think Zend Framework should be on that list. That's what I use

benjamind• 15 years ago

Agreed. Very useful for PHP development.

mindcrime• 15 years ago

I don't see what the point is in this poll. First, similar polls have been done recently, so this information already exists. Secondly, that's a fairly small (and seemingly arbitrary) subset of the available choices... Why not include, for example:

Pylons / Pyramid

Wicket

Groovy on Grails

Stripes

Lift

Compojure

Spring MVC

Snap

and any number of other popular frameworks?

All of that said, my primary choice is Groovy on Grails, so I voted "other."

Wizzard8• 15 years ago

Vaadin + Spring

tzury• 15 years ago

you should add tornado

rplnt2• 15 years ago

Isn't tornado something different?

pyramid• 15 years ago

Pyramid

phaylon• 15 years ago

Other (Perl and Catalyst or Web::Simple, depending on the project).

bfrog• 15 years ago

erlang with cowboy and riak

ajma• 15 years ago

.NET Framework isn't a web framework. ASP.NET is the web framework that runs on .NET. Even then ASP.NET has two distinctly different options. ASP.NET MVC and ASP.NET Webforms.

johns• 15 years ago

...and ASP.NET Web Pages

singingwolfboy• 15 years ago

Flask

rplnt2• 15 years ago

Flask is a type of Bottle :)

superfamicom• 15 years ago

On Ruby, Rails.

On PHP, Slim Framework http://www.slimframework.com/

ibdknox• 15 years ago

Noir! www.webnoir.org

I may be biased, though, since I wrote it :)

dkhenry• 15 years ago

Scala and Play. But really they are just a way to do some simple pages and provide a REST API

BrainScraps• 15 years ago

PSS + Vinegar

Just kidding, that's not a webapp framework, but if I wrote one, that's what I'd call it.

dmotz• 15 years ago

Express

logicalmike• 15 years ago

Lithium

jrussbowman• 15 years ago

Other: Python Tornado

TrentBrown• 15 years ago

Spring MVC

sjs382• 15 years ago

GluePHP/PropelORM/Savant3

michaelcampbell• 15 years ago

No Flex? (Does anyone use Flex?)

EvanK• 15 years ago

Zend Framework (1.x), and Symfony2

flarg• 15 years ago

Cubic Web

coreymcmahon• 15 years ago

Symfony

samarudge• 15 years ago

Tornado (web.py)

peelle• 15 years ago

Mostly Catalyst - http://www.catalystframework.org/

Poll: What Web Application Framework do you use?

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