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How to choose backend technology for my project?

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I am planning to build a "Customer Management Portal" as a hobby project using technologies like HTML,CSS,JavaScript,JAVA,JDBC,Oracle Database.The description of the portal is:

1)Customer details registration.

2)Customer can login using an ID which he gets after registration.

3)Customer can update as well as delete his details whenever required.

4)An Admin can view customer details using his ID.

Since I am familiar with JAVA I prefer the above mentioned technologies, but there are other technologies like MEAN/MERN stack and backend languages like RUBY,Python,PHP etc. How to choose the backend technology suitable for my project.I mean how to analyse and do the tradeoffs.

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There are a lot of factors that can go in the choice of a language:

  • Do the properties of the language itself meet your requirements (e.g., C allows for more low-level optimizations than Visual Basic, Java is more type safe than python, go compiles faster than rust)
  • Are the libraries supported that you need?
  • Is tooling available for the language?
  • How familiar is everyone with the language?
  • Do we receive the right support for the language?

In your case, you have a hobby project and, I assume, you are the only person working on. For a simple website like that Java, PHP, Ruby, NodeJS, and Python are all valid options for what you want to do. Since you are already familiar with Java, this is an obvious choice, and I would only check if you already know about libraries you want to use that don't exist in Java.

There is nothing wrong with sticking with what you know, in this case. Of course you might want to learn another language to broaden your horizon. In that case I would first decide on the language you want to learn and then whether it would be an adequate alternative for your project.

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aditya98‭ wrote almost 4 years ago
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@Peter I found that Codidact was written in Ruby. Could you tell some obvious reasons for using Ruby? also compare if it was written in java, please.

dmckee‭ wrote almost 4 years ago
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I’d add that the only way to know what kinds of effects language selection can have is to do some projects with varied languages. Don’t do those experiments on projects that others are counting on, so do try out new languages for smallish (but non-trivial) hobby projects.

Peter‭ wrote almost 4 years ago
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I am the wrong person to do a comparison of Java and Ruby, but I doubt that Ruby was chosen for Codidact for any other reason than personal preference of the person who started it.

Razetime‭ wrote almost 4 years ago · edited almost 4 years ago
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@aditya98 People tend to use Ruby for the sole purpose of making a Rails app. Rails is widely used because it's not very hard to start with, easy to quickly host(Heroku), and has a wealth of learning resources. I suggest looking at some course material, learning some frameworks and finding out what works best for you. A few google searches about server-side performance comparisons would not hurt as well.

nalply‭ wrote almost 4 years ago · edited almost 4 years ago
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Java tends to get verbose and projects written in it over-engineered (StrategyFactory? only in Java), but is wide-spread in the software industry. A rule for a manager is: It is never wrong to force Java for a project because there are many Java programmers, you can hire and fire them at will. Ruby is not as wide-spread. It's style is a lot conciser and flexibler, and with the motto "Convention over Configuration" this is true even for configuration.