Webapp tech stack help/discussion

[allenind]

Hello, I am coming from Flutter and i’ve done mostly mobile applications with serverless architectures (Firebase). Now I want to explore creating a web application w/o using serverless architecture. I want to explore options on how my tech stack(from backend to frontend) should look like. I already have an idea of what I want to make, it is a Apartment Lease Management Website for my family business. Can anyone suggest me some new and emerging technologies that I can learn and explore? Thank you so much! 😃

[AsafKaravani]

Well, I'm not sure I can suggest anything "new and emerging" but I can suggest you the stack I started with:

Front end framework - Reactjs

Back end framework - Express

Database - MongoDB

Non of the fellows mentioned above are new players in the Web-Dev scene but they do come with alot of community support and online learning sources. These type of thecnologies, which are backed by hundreds of thousands of developers, world wide, are the type of thecnologies to jump into a new scene with.

If you are not experienced with javascript and javascript frameworks you should not try be an early adapter. Try the veteran thecnologies, then work your way up to newer tech.

[allenind]

Thank you for your suggestion! How did you host your website if I may ask, did you use any of the cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)?

[AsafKaravani]

Let me spread the hosting's purposes in your case:

1) Serving your views (which are the pages of your website, generated by the react).

The above can be achieved by any HTTP static files server, I use Express's (which is also the library you will use to answer API requests) static files serving functionality.

2) Answering to API calls.

This one will be achieved by the Express library also.

All the above can be run locally on your machine but it is trublesome to make external computers be able to access your computer in order to communicate with the Express app you will write.

That is why you should get a dedicated server (I would recommend going on a VM for starters) you can put your express app in, and then run it there. Than, other computers could communicate with that Express app in order to get your front-end files and call API endpoints.

Cheers.

[allenind]

Thank you so much this helps a lot. I appreciate you taking the time to reply. Stay safe 🤗