[Decision] Tech stack

[lpatmo]

The comparison rubric: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kCDWHyGhvu4Gdh0Ctzjlu3kVpvrljz-y7Uc-yF_uWJI/edit

[lpatmo]

What I'm leaning towards right now:

Front-end React hosted on Netlify with GraphQL

Back-end Django Rest Framework with a Postgres DB hosted on AWS Lambda functions on Netlify with FaunaDB

Django advantages:

• users and user roles come out of the box

Netlify advantages:

• one repo, and no need to host the backend separately on a different server

Feel grateful to @cbelsole and @angelocordon, and @peoray for looking into React, Node, and Vue, but feel like Django or Netlify would draw more contributors. Still happy to be convinced the other way, though.

Next Steps

1. Estimate how expensive Netlify w/ lambda functions can get and compare with estimated costs hosting Django on AWS (help wanted)
2. Try to get a gauge of whether new contributors (who haven't touched the prototypes yet) would find it easier writing netlify-lambda functions or adding to Django DRF

[angelocordon]

Does it sound like we'll be moving forward with Django DRF + React front end?

[lpatmo]

Whoops, didn't follow up here... decision to move ahead with Django DRF + React documented here: https://github.com/codebuddies/backend/wiki/Decision-log#december-9th-2019

Closing this issue now. :)