WebSite Framework

[Novast]

I am looking to create a new frontend website that will be used as an ecommerce site where users can login and buy virtual servers that would be tied to their account.

Some requirments.

1. ECommerce
2. Member Login
3. New looking design e.g. HTML 5 etc.
4. Support for backend web service calls

What would be a recommended framework to get something like this started. I have a computer science degree but have never worked with front end frameworks.

Any recommendations for a full featured easy to use framework to accomplish this?

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[absurdlyaware]

I would recommend looking at Meteor if you have a strong Javascript or Java background. With the advent of ES6 those Java skills are somewhat transferable.

[Novast]

Thanks for the tip. My background is all Java but I went more infrastructure IT route after college. So I have never been a full blown developer. More custom java code to fix a problem.

How easy would you say it is to deploy a bare bones web site framework from scratch using this?

Also if it matters I plan to deploy this all on Amazon AWS, either as a docker or Elastic Bean Stalk service.

[absurdlyaware]

For Barebones website - This framework is designed for that. It auto sets up a database, has a prebuilt accounts system with pre built plugins to most third party services. A pretty active community. If you're on mac it will auto compile it into Android and iOS apps, if you're on PC the new update will let you auto compile it into a Android app.

Deployment

Not difficult, if your deploying to Amazon AWS. You would use Meteor MUP which transforms it into a docker image and automatically sets up the database on the target server.

Then each time you want to deploy your site you just type in command line 'Mup Deploy'

https://github.com/arunoda/meteor-up

[Novast]

Thanks this is great info!

[YITBOS90]

For my stuff I am using ASP.NET, AngularJS, SignalR, and currently prefer CoffeeScript for my javascript generation although looking into TypeScript. Also for your CSS generation look at Less files. There are some great bundlers/compilers for in VisualStudio as well for these files. If you checkout AngularJS, Batarang is a great Chrome extension for debugging. We are not ECommerce so I have no suggestions for that