I'm going to do an independent study with React for school, and I'm looking to build a full-stack application. I have lots of experience with react, but everything else I'd need is somewhat foreign to me. What I'm looking for is to provide a back-end for a React application.
I'm trying to find a back-end framework that can provide and integrate with almost everything I need (database, API, authentication). I will also need to be able to host everything eventually online rather than just locally on my computer. I don't want to use something that is just click-and-go: I want to learn a lot but find something that has much built in functionality, so I don't have to completely re-invent the wheel.
Does anyone else have experience with a stack you'd recommend that is a happy medium of helpful features while still requiring you to understand and implement the functionality yourself? Something well documented (e.g., it's easy to find documentation regarding putting all the pieces together) would be great.
Thanks in advance!
Rails is an easy framework to pick up, and you'll get to love all of the magic it does for you. Some of that can be a little confusing at first but once you've got acquainted, this is part of the productivity Rails offers as opposed to other languages or frameworks that sometimes tend to require developers to waste a ton of valuable time setting up their own boilerplate when starting to work on a new project. More pragmatically, Rails is still extremely popular at both startups and at large companies, you can use it to power web applications, or backend APIs, and this will be extremely valuable on your resume. There also is a very large/rich set of libraries (called gems) that will allow you to focus on your actual project/product, rather than rebuilding what already exists. I'd recommend you go with the latest versions of Ruby (3.0) and Rails (6.1.1) so you are from the get-go learning them in their most current form.
The IDE I use for Rails is called RubyMine, by JetBrains. You can try it free for 30 days. https://www.jetbrains.com/ruby/download
Greate documentation, lot's of info on StackOverflow and it's easy to learn, a lot of things it's already implemented on the stack. It's based on Ruby which is stable and constantly evolving.
Ruby/Rails have a lot of gems(libraries) that will allow you to connect to many DB systems, implement JWT or use a library for authentication.
I have a lot of API's created in Rails that respond to website and mobile apps, and you can create your first one without a lot of stress, responding with JSON easily.
You can use VSCode has good support for ruby and you will have all syntax help etc, I use Atom but I don't have the syntax support, didn't found a good package for that.
You're joking right? this must be a joke. you cannot be serious suggesting Ruby on Rails in 2021.
You can use VSCode has good support for ruby and you will have all syntax help etc? imma jump off the window.
I didn't saw your recommendation to haydenlingle problem.
Ruby and Rails are anything but dead.
From an easy to learn standpoint, from the innovation that they are still bringing in every release, and the ability to quickly and reliably ship performant, maintainable web application and backends, Ruby and Ruby on Rails are still the go-to solutions for a wide majority of start-ups. And even teams and companies that are no longer in their startup days still value and use Rails, and have no intention of switching over to anything else.
https://www.netguru.com/blog/is-ruby-on-rails-dead
https://perfectial.com/blog/is-ruby-on-rails-dead/
https://themasters.io/blog/posts/is-ruby-on-rails-already-dead
Long Live Rails!
https://rubyonrails.org/