Ask HN: What's your goto for creating a REST API?

3 points by mdgrech23 7y ago ↗ HN

It's 2018, what's your stack look like? Please include language, framework, database/persistence, and how you deploy.

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cascala 7y ago ↗

Java Spring Mongo Proprietary deployment

mdgrech23 7y ago ↗

Nice, which version of Java?

mikeluby 7y ago ↗

API Gateway, AWS Lambda (python), Dynamodb, and rolled my own deployment pipeline

mdgrech23 7y ago ↗

Nice, do you have any concerns about vendor lock in?

mikeluby 7y ago ↗

The thought is there but the functions are implemented with a layer of abstraction that wouldn't make it hard to move to another vendor

lettergram 7y ago ↗

Rails, it's easy, always works, takes a couple hours to setup what I need.

mdgrech23 7y ago ↗

Cool, how do you deploy it?

lettergram 7y ago ↗

You can use elastic beanstalk (puma + nginx), Heroku, countless other ways. Docker container, nginx, on a server, etc.

Khelavaster 7y ago ↗

ASP.Net Web API with SQL Server, deployed with Visual Studio's one-click publish to Azure, a hosted, Windows Server etc.

mindcrime 7y ago ↗

Groovy / Grails / JAX-RS + Postgresql, deployed on AWS using Ansible. But I'm working on starting to containerize everything I do, and move to a Docker / Kubernetes centric model.

irshadc 7y ago ↗

Jhipster(spring boot) + swagger

sh87 7y ago ↗

Over time I figured its smarter to avoid frameworks whenever possible.

* Backend is nodejs mostly (sometimes extends to express when needed)

* DB is usually SQLlite / hosted mongo

* UI is mostly in HTML/Vue/React in increasing order of complexity (latest stable versions)

Very smooth deploys on Heroku.

AlexITC 7y ago ↗

After using quite a lot of frameworks in several languages, I ended up writing my own micro-framework.

* Language: Scala

* Framework: playsonify [1] on top of play and lately, on top of akka-http (pre-release module [2]).

* Database: PostgreSQL when possible.

* Deployment: Ansible

[1] https://github.com/AlexITC/playsonify

[2] https://github.com/AlexITC/playsonify/tree/2.0.0-SNAPSHOT/pl...

zmmmmm 7y ago ↗

My new favorite: Micronaut [1]. It's the first java based framework (though I am using Groovy with it) that just "does what I want" with sensible defaults for a modern REST based API: simple annotation based URI spec on methods with bindings to arguments for parameters, and defaults to JSON responses with encoding etc all built in. You can hook it to hibernate, GORM etc., but I just use Groovy's built in Sql classes which essentially are as good as a minimalistic ORM.

Very simple, no fuss, "just works" as advertised.

[1] http://micronaut.io/