What are the best hackathon starters for fullstack web app?

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Best hackathon starters for fullstack web app	Price	Default Template Engine	Default ORM
-- Ruby on Rails	-	ERB	ActiveRecord
-- Django	-	Django (Jinja2)	Django ORM
-- Node.js Hackathon Starter	-	-	-
-- MEAN.js	-	-	-
-- MEAN.io	-	-	-

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Ruby on Rails

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Small projects are very easy and it's possible to finish one in very little time

The large number of documentation, tutorials, videos and guides which help new developers who are just starting with Rails make it seem very easy to create a small and simple application by relying on code generation and components that come out of the box with Rails. See More

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Default Template Engine:ERB

Default ORM:ActiveRecord

Default Test Engine:RSpec & Cucumber

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Django

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Developing a simple prototype can be very fast

Django's philosophy of batteries included means that experienced developers won't have to plan too much ahead on what kind of application infrastructure they need and instead just start developing web applications quickly. See More

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Default Template Engine:Django (Jinja2)

Default ORM:Django ORM

Price:Free: Open Source

Multi Language Support:Excellent

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Mature software with many plugins developed over the years

Django was first released in 2006, it has had a lot of time to mature and become better with each release. It also has by far the largest community out of all python frameworks who have continuously over the years built and maintained many powerful plugins. See More

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Node.js Hackathon Starter

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What are the best hackathon starters for fullstack web app?

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Ruby on Rails

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My Recommendation for Ruby on Rails

Small projects are very easy and it's possible to finish one in very little time

Django

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My Recommendation for Django

Developing a simple prototype can be very fast

Mature software with many plugins developed over the years

Node.js Hackathon Starter

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MEAN.io

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