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Comprehensive Mountaineering Resource
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Choose backend #3

Closed quinnmil closed 5 years ago

quinnmil commented 5 years ago

flask or node.js? Pros/Cons.How to create API with each.

quinnmil commented 5 years ago

I think I'm going to go with a Node.Js / Express backend. I'm more experienced with Python, so this will give me an opportunity to diversity my skills. Express is an "unopinionated, minimalist web framework" which gives me access to routing/middleware tools to handle and process requests from the frontend. Since express is unopinionated, I continue researching libraries I'll need for things like web scraping and database management. (picking a database might be a new issues, but I'll leave it for later.)