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Nishant Mittal
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What stack did/do you guys use for making an MVP in hackathons?

What stack did/do you guys use for making an MVP in hackathons from scratch?

I use Django mostly for handling both backend and frontend. For the design, I just use an online CSS template.

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Thomas Andersen

Google Firebase. Super fast setup and they support hosting, realtime-db, Cloud functions etc all for free (at least enough minutes/queries etc for an MVP). Usually use Vue or React from some template.

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Nishant Mittal

Cool Thanks! But what framework do you use for building the application and consume the google firebase services?

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Leon Lafayette • Edited

I haven't really been involved in a Hackathon to date but I'm interested in peoples responses here. I have a side project that I'm working on that is intended for people who need to quickly build an MVP or use as part of a Hackathon. It would be nice to know what features people look for when choosing a framework/boilerplate for a Hackathon.

What are your reasons for choosing Django?

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Nishant Mittal

It is really easy to integrate simple css templates and get a database. I mean you have choose something as a backend. So, Django. Are there any nice alternatives?

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Leon Lafayette

Yeah I hear a lot of good things about Django, I know enough to build a simple REST API but that's about it. I've had very little exposure with Django/python.

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Nishant Mittal

You should definitely try Django.