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Ask HN: Web Application Development?
I'd love to make some web applications. I've got tons of ideas, I can program (Ruby, Haskell, Erlang), but I've got almost no experience making web applications.
Are there any guides or starter sets/ideas to get the ball rolling?
For instance, how to handle user accounts? Passwords? Twitter/Facebook logins? etc.
- jaddison 17y agoUse a framework that handles user accounts/passwords for you. Twitter, Facebook and other social auth frameworks can be plugged in easily via 3rd party modules. I use and recommend Django, for example. I would imagine Ruby/Rails would have similar capabilities. For Django tutorials/docs: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.1/ http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.1/ Django is also about to release a major update in the first half of March (v1.2). Some GREAT improvements.
- ThinkWriteMute 17y agoI'm currently heavily entrenched in Sinatra. I'm surprised to learn that Django and Rails do user accounts for you. Crazy.
- shiny 17y agoSinatra has a few 3rd party libraries that do it for you. I'm using sinatra-authentication, which works great.