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Which language & framework are you using for a backend?

InvalidLenni on January 28, 2022

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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Justin Henry

Language: JS/TS
Framework: Depending on backend purpose, either NestJS or NextJS

NextJS: coupled with react frontend to serve minor apis
NestJS: more robust and complex applications (and microservice infrastructure)

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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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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.

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EinLinuus

Language: JS / TS
Framework: SvelteKit

I really love Svelte and how simple you can build awesome apps, and SvelteKit is perfect with server-side rendering and routing.

Personally, I love it to build the whole application in one language, before I discovered SvelteKit I used plain HTML / CSS / JS with PHP.

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Ilya Kozlov

Elixir language with Phoenix Framework

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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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Dennis Kamau

Node but I think Java is better

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Charisma Elohe

You’d prefer flask to Django?
I’d root for Django, it’s the whole tool box!

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InvalidLenni • Edited

In fact, I haven't really watched Django yet.

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Charisma Elohe

Be sure to check it out.
I love Django since it is much scalable, better security like csrf enablement.

(I would be publishing an article on this very soon.Be sure to check it out)

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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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Nihad

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

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Charisma Elohe

Django.

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Scotticles

jquery, adminlte, mojolicious, postgres, minion, Perl

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Josue Fuentes

Lenguage:php,java

Framework:laravel y spring

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H.elyasi

Js...express

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Lucas

Backend: NestJS, Laravel
Frontend: NextJS, Remix, Vue

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big-webdev

Php. And mostly with the framework Symfony.

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Lucian I. Last

GoLang with Gin

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Alohe

Node.js with express.js simple and straightforward

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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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Asad Ullah

NodeJS with Typescript. (ExpressJS, NestJS)

Golang (Fibre, Echo) - it depends on the client as well.

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Jesse M. Holmes

Node and .Net Core since 2015.

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Ben Halpern
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Andrew Baisden

I am also using Node and Express for my backend. And I would like to add a Python backend too so I have options. Not sure if it will be Flask, Django or FastAPI.

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Drew Ronsman

Express

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Cajaye Clarke

js, expressjs

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Dhruva Srinivas

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

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Alexandru019

Language: PHP
Framework: Codeigniter until i burn it whole and then i will finish laravel

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Mike Niagara

Ruby

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TechMan09

Mostly a mess of PHP and some APIs

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Rebecca

I use C#, .netcore primarily for my backend

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Philippe Allard-Latour • Edited
  • Langage: PHP

  • Framework: Symfony

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Randel Ramirez

.NET(C# + ASP.NET Core)

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MikeVV

For my pet projects i use python + bottlepy. It’s a bit simpler than flask and only one file dependency that make distribution much easier 🙂

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14Chris

Languages: C#
Frameworks: .NET 5 (ASP.NET Web Api)

For work and personal projects

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David Adi Nugroho

php/laravel

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rajesh singh

I use Om Startup Framework. It's a new frameworks that gives me landing page, pricing page, user dashboard, authentication, user tracking from the bootstraps all from the get go.