I have the idea of starting my personal site a while ago, I thought about it again in January and I decided to make it work, and it’s finally up now, so I’m gonna wrote my first post here
My coworker came across me the other day in lunch break, he talked to me about the idea of re-design a website for a small business of his friend. I have some time after work and I like his idea. The old site is still using flash, and it crashes sometimes, and it’s not mobile responsive and does not have many functionalities for customers to explore.
The idea is simple, but his friend requested a lot of new fuctions to be added, things like, online shopping(of course), online chat, user can save some his/her favorites, and etcs. We used to develop a side-project after work, an eCommerce site using Spring MVC, AngularJS and OracleDB, we tweak some front-end side code, and I deployed it on Tomcat container(I made an EC2 instance), and showed it to his friend as demo. We talked a deal with his friend, we need to deliver this site in 4 - 6 months.
Some questions came up to me when I was driving home after this day.
- Architeture, how do we want this site to be, and future maintenance?
- Database! it’s important, how do I manage a large amount(customer info, order info, receipts…)
- Deployment? AWS?
I doubt about using Spring MVC + AngularJS + OracleDB is the solution in this situation, I really prefer something like Ruby on Rails, it’s probably the quickest way. But my coworker isn’t very familiar with it, MEAN might be a choice, and we also have some experience with Angular 4
Database, is Oracle our answer though? I would prefer MongoDB as our database solution since this is a small business site. And if we do use MEAN as our choice, maybe we can think about some other choice for deployment like PaaS?