Ask HN: Web Application Development?

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I'd love to make some web applications. I've got tons of ideas, I can program (Ruby, Haskell, Erlang), but I've got almost no experience making web applications.

Are there any guides or starter sets/ideas to get the ball rolling?

For instance, how to handle user accounts? Passwords? Twitter/Facebook logins? etc.

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Use a framework that handles user accounts/passwords for you. Twitter, Facebook and other social auth frameworks can be plugged in easily via 3rd party modules.

I use and recommend Django, for example. I would imagine Ruby/Rails would have similar capabilities.

For Django tutorials/docs: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.1/

Django is also about to release a major update in the first half of March (v1.2). Some GREAT improvements.

I'm currently heavily entrenched in Sinatra. I'm surprised to learn that Django and Rails do user accounts for you. Crazy.

Sinatra has a few 3rd party libraries that do it for you. I'm using sinatra-authentication, which works great.

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