Ask HN: Web Framework for light and fast development

2 points by bischofs 11y ago ↗ HN

I need to build a customized work request system with many different interactions and views, but am shy about a heavy framework with too much of a learning curve. Ive used rails and django in the past so I am starting with those two. Looking for something with above average template system and code generation.

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richerlariviere 11y ago ↗

What about lumen (http://lumen.laravel.com/)? It is a micro framework (inherited from Laravel). If you need more features, you can easily scale up your project to use Laravel because Lumen uses the same structure.

msukan 11y ago ↗

I'd suggest Express (http://expressjs.com/). It's easy to learn with a good feature set and still very minimalist.

ramon 11y ago ↗

I like to use Gulp with gulp-file-include, full static front-end optimized build process.

I really like being able to always play with the build process to optimize the front-end only, Gulp rules.