For small businesses or startups, choosing a relevant tech stack is particularly challenging, since they usually have limited budgets and, thus, they need a technology stack that provides the best result. A wrong choice of web development technology may be a reason for failure of project .To a great extent a right tech stack is the key to a successful project. There is variety of choices for tech stacks in the web development world that it is quite easy to be confused.
For instance, ASP.NET on the front end, SQL Server on the backend and .NET on the middle tier; and that was the scene past; But now a day’s new tools and advanced technologies are ruling the technology, and we should be careful while =opting the right choice.
Only to build a professionally, functioning software should not be the aim of a developer Instead developer should focus on maintainability, scalability and security of the app. So now it is important to have a full plan in mind while choosing a tech stack.
Given below are some of the most popular tech stacks that developers use in their projects.
.NET Stack
.NET Stack includes C# as the primary language working with .NET framework. It is also called Microsoft’s technology stack because it is a highly featured software framework developed by Microsoft. It is used to build dynamic and interactive web apps. .NET stack is a subset of Overflow Stack. Overflow Stack is a comprehensive technical web stack that can help to fulfils all the requirements of web front-end, database and a .NET developer.
.NET Stack contain a large class library called Framework Class Library (FCL) which includes about 60 frameworks, platforms, SDKs, IDEs, SOA, libraries, etc. which is spread over 13 layers. Programs written in the .NET Framework is executed in a software environment called Common Language Runtime (CLR). This includes programming languages like C#, F#, VB.NET, Fantom, etc. Both FCL and CLR together constitute the .NET stack.
Features:
Language independent: .NET stack can exchange types and object instances between libraries and applications. That means developers have the freedom to choose their language of choice. This is possible because .NET Framework introduces a Common Type System (CTS) .It is designed to allow programs to be written in any programming languages in order to easily share information.
Portability: Microsoft submitted the specifications for CLI,C#, and C++/CLI to both Ecma International (ECMA) and International Organization for Standardization (ISO), so that they become official standards. That means it is designed to be cross-platform and implementations are available for other operating systems as well. .NET stack is compatible with a number of frameworks and platforms make it portable.
Interoperability: This is an important feature of .NET stack. Interoperability among different platforms enables developers to make use of a full range of complementing features. Access to other functions is done by Platform Invocation Services (P/Invoke). Access to .NET functions from native applications is done through reverse P/Invoke function.
Speed: Speed of developer time and runtime is very important because the speed you attained in development time will be gained in runtime as well. .NET Framework compiles with its just-in-time compiler from the CIL code into executable code, and caches the executable program into the .NET Native Image Cache during its first launch. Due to caching, the application launches faster. To speed up the first launch, developers can use the Native Image Generator utility.
LAMP Stack
LAMP Stack is a traditional web service stacks, named by its four open-source components. The four open source components are:
- Linux operating system,
- Apache HTTP Server,
- MySQL relational database management system (RDBMS), and
- PHP
These components are interchangeable. LAMP is good for creating dynamic websites and web applications. LAMP can be highly flexible, customizable and easy to use when combined with other open source and free software packages.
Some Alternatives:
The traditional LAMP stack consists of four free and open-source products. Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP. But these components are interchangeable. There are several variants for this four stack model.
- WAMP (Windows/Apache/MySQL/PHP): Here instead of Linux OS Microsoft OS is used. This alternative is easy to get started with. The WAMP stack has the IIS server.
- LAPP (Linux/Apache/PostgreSQL/PHP): Here database has changed. MySQL is changed with PostgreSQL database. It is configured to work with enterprise-level projects.
- MAMP (Mac OS X/Apache/MySQL/PHP): In this operating system variations are done. Instead of Windows OS Mac OS is used.
- XAMPP (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows/Apache/MySQL/PHP, Perl): This group is a complete one, and runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac operating systems. This stack is equipped with FTP server, which is cross-platform.
- Many more alternatives are available. There is an alternative keeping the original acronym, LAMP (Linux / Apache / Middleware (Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby) / PostgreSQL). Variations can be done according to developer’s choice.
MEAN Stacks
MEAN is a tech stack which uses JavaScript technologies to build dynamic websites and web applications. From client to server to database, MEAN is full stack JavaScript. MEAN is named by its components; MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS and Node.js. MongoDB is for the database with NoSQL structure. ExpressJS is lightweight framework that runs on Node.js. AngularJS is a JavaScript framework developed by Google that run in browser JavaScript engines. Node.js is a server side JavaScript execution platform built on Google Chrome’s V8 JavaScript runtime. Here also we can see alternatives from the traditional MEAN stack. One of such variation is MEEN stack, the JavaScript MVC framework Ember.js is used instead of Angular.
AngularJS being on the client side makes AJAX calls to ExpressJS. It returns the response in JSON format. ExpressJS running on NodeJS Server then communicate with MongoDB .As this stack uses only JavaScript it is easy for the developers to code the application for both server side and client side execution platforms. Developers working on the client side can easily understand the codes of the server side as they both use same language. This is a great benefit of MEAN stack. Another feature is it supports the MVC (Model View Controller) architecture.
ROR Stack
ROR stands for Ruby on Rails. Ruby is a popular programming language and Rails is a framework used to create web application using the Ruby language. ROR stack facilitates dynamic web app development using its rich library integration.
Rails is a model–view–controller (MVC) framework. Similar to above stack this also provide structures for database, web services, and web pages. For data transfer it uses the web standards such as JSON or XML and for display and user interfacing it uses HTML, CSS and JavaScript. ROR development framework is distributed under the MIT license which clearly describes that developer can use and modify it without any restrictions.Related articles:
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