Backend:

For our rationale in deciding each technology, visit

Copy of Technical Research

The frameworks we used:

Express

• We agreed to use Express as it is a familiar web server framework to what we knew that is extremely easy to use.
• It is modular and has great authentication, cookies, and sessions libraries.

NodeJS

• Excellent third-party library support through NPM
• It has a large and robust open-source community and great support on Stack Overflow and other platforms for trouble-shooting.

MongoDB

• Would give greater exposure to the NoSQL database paradigm - perfectly complementing our SQL background during our Lambda School curriculum.
• Greater freedom in schema design during prototyping and ideation. Also a greater familiarity with JSON-like object
• Greater scalability with sharding and load-balancing with future product cycles and user growth.
• First-party, pre-installed servers available for free through MongoDB.