Draft Overview Of Techincal Needs From A Backend about freespeech HOT 8 CLOSED

I’m gonna throw Django into the ring. Specify Django Rest Framework. I think it covers all of the requirements

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I love Django. I've never used it for production, but it for sure hits all the high points. I was also kinda thinking about Express.js. Spent some time reading up on it and seems like it hits them as well. With Express i was thinking that almost because of we already all have NPM and would just need a docker/mysql db running. But honestly i imagine most people also have Python installed and can always put the whole backend into a docker image for people who only want to contribute to front end. I like it! Thank you.

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Just thinking about the security side of things, could it be a good idea to handle passwords and accounts through google as that keeps accounts secure without much moderation/ chance of leaks from free speech as well as not requiring much database space on the backend.

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I think we’ll probably use Auth0 with whatever backend we go with for authentication. It has packages to work with any major programming languages.
https://auth0.com/

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May I ask why the Rest requirement? I know I'm totaly an outsider here. No contibutions so far, but I'm just wondering why not GrahpQL? If you start from 0 there is little that speaks for REST over GraphQL in my opinion.

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Hello there! I am a full stack developer based in Arizona. I saw your project on tik tok and wanted to contribute to your application. I am skilled in the MERN stack and primarily interested in back end development.
I think Express is a great option that covers most of your requirements that you are looking for. Scalable, fast, and efficient. Its easy for other developers to understand the code since it's all javascript. Express is fantastic for applications that interact and gather data from third party resources.

I've successfully used Heroku to deploy several projects. Its convenient to be able to deploy your application by just pushing commits to the heroku git repository. It takes care of all the back end infrastructure. The scaling is pretty straight forward as you only need to specify the number of processing units required. You're also just using standard tools to build the application so you aren't locked in should you decide to migrate to another service. However, the premiums for high volume applications are pretty expensive but I assume that extreme traffic on this application isn't currently an issue. I think it would be a great place to start and you could move the app to a different platform later if need be.

Auth0 is fantastic and easy to use, however keep in mind that it gets very expensive once you start to scale. I've used Passport.js and find that I prefer using passport in conjunction with node and express.

Please let me know if I am able to help contribute to this project in any way! This is an amazing thing you are creating.

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Hey @mkchung8, I think express is probably going be the way we go. Keep it all js and lower entry level for anyone who wants to contribute., since they probably already know js. Plus I've been reading up on express and i think it fits the bill. Feel free to reach out to me on our Discord server or via my email in my github. Would love to go into more depth about this and get the wheels moving on the backend. Currently we're still ironing out for all just client release. But would love to get started on backend for later releases. Thank you!

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Nodejs is very slow, the new project should use Golang to build future project. Golang is thirty times better than Nodejs.

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