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I want to develop an application similar to an imageboard and I'm looking for the right tools to do this.

I first tried rails, but when going through the tutorial I found out that the specific version of rails required for the tutorial had some errors compiling something during install on my raspberry pi (which is where I want to run it).

I remember wanting to try out rails when it first came out, and was discouraged for similar reasons. Today it's not sorted out still. I'd rather use a different frame work.

php works everywhere but it's a terrible language and it's easy to lose the oversight of what you are doing.

So i'm looking for something that is simple, reliable and runs everywhere. A framework that is actively being used and developed. It shouldn't take a lot of work to learn, preferably. It should be fairly easy to create nice-looking applications.

It should have some kind of object-relational mapping (or some other kind of convenient data storage?). A templating system like HAML would be a big plus.

I'm family with python, ruby, and javascript. A framework based on these languages might be convenient, but there are so many of them, that I don't have any idea which one to choose. I thought I'd ask before getting too much into any one of them.

I want to develop an application similar to an imageboard and I'm looking for the right tools to do this. I first tried rails, but when going through the tutorial I found out that the specific version of rails required for the tutorial had some errors compiling something during install on my raspberry pi (which is where I want to run it). I remember wanting to try out rails when it first came out, and was discouraged for similar reasons. Today it's not sorted out still. I'd rather use a different frame work. php works everywhere but it's a terrible language and it's easy to lose the oversight of what you are doing. So i'm looking for something that is simple, reliable and runs everywhere. A framework that is actively being used and developed. It shouldn't take a lot of work to learn, preferably. It should be fairly easy to create nice-looking applications. It should have some kind of object-relational mapping (or some other kind of convenient data storage?). A templating system like HAML would be a big plus. I'm family with python, ruby, and javascript. A framework based on these languages might be convenient, but there are so many of them, that I don't have any idea which one to choose. I thought I'd ask before getting too much into any one of them.

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[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

Stay away from the security nightmare Wordpress. Relatively speaking, it's easier to infect a Wordpress site than a remote Windows computer. I went back to simple HTML, with minimal CSS, for my little business's website. The best toll depends on what you want to do. I think you already know this, though.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt (edited )

I haz an idea

If it's a pet project and you don't plan on having more than let's say 300 dudes active at the same time 24/7 7/7...

You could try a bundle nodejs, express, mysql, socket.io...

I mean aside the fact that you have pretty much everything in js only everywhere, as opposed to php trying to work in sync with js... You have express for the php types of stuffs, mysql for databases because fuck me I'm old, and socket io for anything like a chat and/or a full mmo rpg point and click type of shit https://phaserquest.herokuapp.com/

Full tuto here https://www.dynetisgames.com/2017/03/06/how-to-make-a-multiplayer-online-game-with-phaser-socket-io-and-node-js/

And gandi offers plans to do just that

https://shop.gandi.net/us/simplehosting/create?country=US

Now I mostly use localhost for "the plan" so I can't really tell, there are probably better plans

Ok it implies doing everything by hand, but you can achieve pretty much everything that way

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That is if you're comfortable with js

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Now there's phpbb

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It's phpbb eh https://www.phpbb.com/ you could stripdown it/theme it to suit your needs idk

At least you can start tonight with it, it works right out of the box, almost

I'm just throwig ideas, because none of the above is specifically designed for exactly what you need

[–] • 0 pt

Thanks. I tried out phaser quest, it was a pretty cool game. It's pretty cool what you can do with just javascript these days.

For now, I'm trying out a ruby-based framework called Hanami, which doesn't seem to use such a heavy stack as rails nor be so light that it doesn't have any structure.

If I get stuck, I'll check out some socket.io and express in more detail.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Well with the little game tuto above, you can build a chat out of it, like super easy in 24h/ a week end or so (including the necessary time to understand, debug the shit, design layouts and all that)

Now as I said above, ideally, you want a framework designed to make actual image boards first and foremost, not "everything and anything"

here here https://github.com/kennell/imageboards