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Timur Iskakov
Timur Iskakov

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If you would create a small social network in 2020 what stack it would have?

Hey everyone ๐Ÿ‘‹

Let me ask you a question. Imagine that you are a full-stack developer and you are going to create a social network for relatively small group of people to sharing pictures and chat (I know how is sounds like, but it's not an Instagram or something like that ๐Ÿ™‚). You already have a web-design (PC and mobile versions) with good specification and a some front-end (just HTML/CSS with basic JS functionality like tabs, modals and so on).

What stack do you prefer for backend if you needed to build a web-version and a mobile app?

My choose is MongoDB for database to store a posts and comments. Laravel for sloving the main backend development tasks. Vue.js - for the frontend. For mobile app I prefer to try Dart and Flutter for building an app. It's cool that you can build iOS and Android app either using just one language.

What would be your choice?

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt • Edited

I think it's more MVA and scaling, not just some small and throwaway things.

Maybe, Neo4J, Kotlin on the backend. But, I don't think it is hard to use MongoDB and migrate later.

Frontend does not matter that much, but for me, maybe Vue, so that I can launch my product fast.

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Timur Iskakov

Thank you for answer.
I agree that Vue.js can reduce time for launch.

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TJ Johnson

Expo for a unified code base of native and web on the front end. I've read that NoSQL databases are not good for social apps, the many-to-many relationships between users will lead to writing a lot of logic around joining data. I'm personally more comfortable in Django/Postgres, but I think Laravel/MySQL is fine.

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Timur Iskakov

Yes, there is an opinion that MongoDB not a good choice for store that kind of data. PostgreSQL is the second tool I have been thinking about.
Thank you.

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Olaf Sulich

For me it would be probably Express/Nest, PostgreSQL, TypeScript, React and GraphQL

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Timur Iskakov

Cool stack.
It was hard decision for me between React and Vue.js. If I might not use Flutter, I'll rather prefer React and React Native for building an app.

I like realy GraphQL. Maybe it's a best choice for soical network, but I need to improve my knowledge of if before I can use it in production.

Maybe you know any good courses of it?
Thank you!

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Olaf Sulich

Vue.js is also good choice :) Honestly, documentation - it's well written. When you start reading it, just implement some features in your app, play with it, imo this is the best way to learn new technologies.

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Timur Iskakov

Ok. Thanks for the advice.

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Seanmclem

Prisma?

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Michael Z • Edited

Solid stack, just wondering why you chose mongo over a relational database? You will need a bunch of *relation*ships for such an app.

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Timur Iskakov

Just because I haven't a lot experience of using PostgreSQL in my projects. But I can try it. Thanks.

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Michael Z

It will probably make things easier as it has excellent first-party support in Laravel.

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rikoroku • Edited

I think the better solution in this case is using Dart/Flutter for the mobile app and Angular/Firestore for Front-end/Backend.

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Timur Iskakov

I haven't seen a working social netwotk built using only Dart yet. But I'll try to build that one.
Angular is a good framework, but I have more experience in Vue.js.

What's about Firestore? Never worked with that technology ๐Ÿค”

Thank you.

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Pacharapol Withayasakpunt

Firestore might be fast, real time, and encourage indexing, but not as fully featured as MongoDB.

Also, no joins. They have to be done manually.

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Timur Iskakov

MongoDB can give an app a good speed, I agree. So that is why I choose it.
No JOINs? It can be a lot of work doing them manually ๐Ÿค”
Thanks.

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Bajro

I will use golang with vuejs for mobile app probably flutter

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Timur Iskakov

Golang is a cool language. I've heard a lot good things about it. But it's unfortunately not the one of my skills.

Thank you.