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Which language & framework are you using for a backend?

Hello there!

Which language and framework are you using for the backend on your website? Example: js, expressjs. (X, Z. X = Programming language, Z = framework)

I use javascript, expressjs currently for my APIs / backends, but I want to switch to python, flask.

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Nihad

On my last project I utilized ASP.NET with SignalR framework to communicate with my WinForms applications.

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TechMan09

Mostly a mess of PHP and some APIs

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Cajaye Clarke

js, expressjs

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Brian Richardson

A mix of C# and PHP. Communication between applications is via Web APIs, or RPC over a message queue. Moving toward a completely async C# implementation that doesn't use RPC at all. SignalR is part of that puzzle, allowing back-end processing to communicate back to the front-end.

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Lucian I. Last

GoLang with Gin

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Dhruva Srinivas

I use TypeScript (Node) with Nest.js and TypeGraphQL/Express (for GraphQL backends)

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Madalin Ignisca

php, javascript, python. I prefer microservices, small functions, all glued with docker for development, and kubernetes for production. observability with sentry, which can couple the frontend as well and give me exact trace from the client to the backend service issues, perfoamance also.

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muralidharan • Edited

Django for full stack app and fastapi for api...
DRF is also a good choice for Building restapi

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mirko

It depends on the customer which I work for.

For my projects:

  • Golang with Fiber

For work:

  • Java with Spring boot
  • Golang
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longtrinh1749

Is your project for freelance job?

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mirko

At the moment my projects are only for personal/learning needs

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Valeria

Used to do a lot of Nodejs with custom frameworks, switched to Go and Encore backend engine.
It all depends on the requirements, to be honest, I need tools to prototype REST APIs fast and be able to release to production without too many changes. What are you aiming to build?

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InvalidLenni

a small API for a discord bot that detects and deletes phishing links.

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Valeria

Yeah, anything would do here, to be honest.
I'm not familiar with Flask, but in Node or Go you'd not need a framework for it, since there'd be just a few static routes.