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How to choose backend technology for my project?
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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