Backend Development

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What are the best cloud hosting services for small businesses?

Available to create one workspace and add other users inside each workspaces.

Darim (790 karma) recommends

V2 Cloud

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What are the best JavaScript templating engines?

It was easy to learn, easy to use and very quick for me to build functional prototypes. I came from Angular and React, VueJS was a nice breath of fresh air for the front-end.

Jason (890 karma) recommends

Vue.js

Support for both templates and JSX

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What are the best Java ORMs (including JPA implementations (Java Persistence API))?

JDBI is very easy to use tool, that help you manage and optimize your persistent layer.

Isaac (815 karma) recommends

JDBI

Very lightweight and easy to use

Takes advantage of Lambda expressions

Very lightweight but not lots of boiler-plate

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What are the best server side programming languages?

Go Language was an answer to the current loophole of language design. Created by the author of C and Unix with Google, this is currently the youngest yet the most important language. Beware of the lack of Generics though.

Capuccino (8.8K karma) recommends

Golang

Backed by Google

All code gets standardized formatting

Intuitive concurrency

Goroutines

Performance slowdown because of indirect calls and garbage collection

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What are the best IDEs or editors for PHP?

I also tried PHP Eclipse Mars, NetBeans and VisualStudio but I prefer PsPad because it's simple and it has integrated FTP client.

Šimon (715 karma) recommends

PSPad

Integrated FTP client

Code highlighting for many languages

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What are the best PHP frameworks?

Fat Free Framework in conjunction with RedbeanPHP is just a dream and so much faster to implement than any other framework. dot.

JovialPerkunas (145 karma) recommends

Fat-Free Framework

Self documenting code

Comprehensive documentation and API reference

Multiple view engines

Shortened development time

ORM supports sql, nosql, and jig

Easy to get started

No canned coding/directory structure

Vibrant community behind the framework

Autoload and support of namespaces

Very good error handling

Helpful, supportive and responsive community

Simple and easy localization/ multilanguage

No model files to maintain

Flexible routing engine

Easy & extendable templating

Open source

Good performance (excluding c-compiled php frameworks)

Lightweight without losing functionality

Highly modular

Quick and easy to learn

Default ORM is missing some features but there is RedBean PHP

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What is the best programming language to learn for backend developers?

MySQL is the world’s most popular open source database, enabling the cost-effective delivery of reliable, high-performance and scalable Web-based and embedded database applications. It is an integrated transaction safe, ACID-compliant database with full commit, rollback, crash recovery, and row-level locking...

Null1971 (350 karma) recommends

MySQL

Self-healing Replication Clusters to improve scalability, performance and availability

Platform Independence giving you the flexibility to develop and deploy on multiple operating systems

An open-source relational database management system

Easy to start working with

Scalable

Multiple third-party tools that help working with MySQL

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What are the best .NET logging frameworks?

Great framework with awesome documentation

Suyash (150 karma) recommends

Serilog

Flexible configuration options

Is portable between recent .NET platforms

Multiple extensions

Can log structured data

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What are the best Smalltalk web stacks?

Read positive things about it, but did not try it myself.

RickZeeland (7.1K karma) recommends

Aida/Web

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What are the best frameworks for creating mobile web apps?

Found the component library expansive. Quite surprised given the how young the product, so looking forward to the future. Also want to mention the documentation is great.

ExuberantWala (200 karma) recommends

Quasar Framework

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What are the best Node.js build systems / task runners?

Once it's set up, you never have to think about it again.

Darren (230 karma) recommends

Webpack

Rich and flexible plugin infrastructure

Share the same modules client-side and server-side

Tap into npm's huge module ecosystem

Supports source maps for easier debugging

ES6 module support

Extremely configurable

Code splitting

Config file may be hard to understand

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What are the best PHP microframeworks?

Good support, small & fast, easy to learn, micro all the way

ResourcefulMarzanna (100 karma) recommends

Slim

Well organized and thorough documentation

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What are the best SOAP client libraries for Python?

Found working examples pretty easily, documentation excellent.

ThriftyHapantali (50 karma) recommends

zeep

Compatible with multiple Python versions

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What are the best tools for creating newsletters for people to subscribe to?

I use mailchimp for several of my websites. The free plan is very generous and loaded with features, and then as the mailing lists grow bigger, switching to the more robust paid plans is easy and hassle free. There are tons of features and the UI is well designed, even for large lists. Integrating them with...

JM80 (41.4K karma) recommends

MailChimp

Free plan

Good form customization options

Delivery by time zone

Clean, easy to use UI

You can schedule your emails to be delivered at a certain time

Detailed tracking

Easily integrates with other services

Awful sign up/log in process

No customer support via phone

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What are the languages that have most powerful and easy to use free IDEs?

Working with C# for 10 years. Now use Visual studio community with plugins and happy with it

WiseJuthrbog (410 karma) recommends

.NET truly universal

Great language for Unity game engine

Can mix high and low level programming

Supported on many platforms

Very high demand in the industry

Great introduction to object-oriented programming

Best language for Windows programs

Incredibly well-engineered language

Supports some functional features

Awesome IDE for Windows

.NET is a great toolbox

Visual Studio Code