We recommend Laravel over Ruby on Rails (Ruby) and Express.js (JavaScript/Node.js). We chose Laravel ourselves for our own internal software project, recently after comparing these same 3 software frameworks. In selecting Laravel, we chose to build our app using the software language PHP. PHP has the largest market share of all the web-based software languages (close to 80% of all websites use PHP). Also, Laravel is the fastest-growing software framework based on PHP making it a wise choice.
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Should We Use A Software Framework?
Software frameworks help product owners, entrepreneurs, and executives get their software apps up and running quickly.
Why? Because a software framework is a collection of code maintained by expert software developers that serve as the foundation for your own software.
If You Build It, Will They Come?
In building software or starting any new endeavor, you may face taunts of lunacy just like Ray faced in the movie Field of Dreams.
Jeff Bezos has shared that he uses the Regret Minimization Framework in helping him make decisions like whether to build or not to build.
Rather than focus on whether they will come, trust in knowing that if you ‘don’t’ build it, they, most definitely, won’t come.
What are the Most Popular Programming Languages?
The most popular programming languages can be broken down into 4 categories: website frontend, web-based application backend, mobile app development and embedded systems. JavaScript, HTML and CSS are the most popular website frontend programming languages. For web-based application backend, JavaScript, Python, PHP, C# and Ruby are the most popular programming languages. JavaScript, Kotlin, Java, C# and Swift are the most popular programming languages used for mobile app development. For embedded systems, popular programming languages are C, C++, Python, Java, Rust, Ada, JavaScript, B+, Go, C#, Lua, Assembly and Forth.
What Is A Minimum Viable Product (MVP)?
The term Minimum Viable Product was developed by Eric Ries in his book Lean Startup. Eric defines MVP as follows:
A minimum viable product (MVP) is the “version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort.”
Where are Rackless’ Software Developers Located?
Rackless’ software developers are distributed between 3 primary locations: India, North America and South America.
With recruiting software developers around the globe, Rackless clients can staff their software development team across three 8-hour shifts. This allows them to achieve an almost 24 hours/day software development cycle.