HACKER Q&A
📣 metabro

What is the shortest path to making web apps for a data engineer?


This isn’t to get employed as a web developer but to have the ability to build something myself.

For context, I’m a data engineer working for big tech and know a lot of sql and enough python for my day job. But I’ve always wanted the ability of thinking of an idea and implementing it end to end.

What’s an efficient stack that I can use?

  👤 physicsguy Accepted Answer ✓
Probably Django, and get it to serve pages rather than doing API + some frontend technology like React.
👤 cpach
You might want to have a look at Flask.

Here’s a good starting point: https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/the-flask-mega-tutorial...

👤 0x008
If you work with graphs I can wholeheartedly recommend plotly/dash. It has a very intuitive API. And you can build a single page app dashboard with interactive graphs and buttons, sliders etc. in a few hours.

It is based on Flask.

If you just want API and no frontend, have a look at FastAPI.

👤 aristofun
Ruby on Rails