What web framework should someone new to web development learn?<\/p>\n
Any framework that follows what I call “The Law of Least Googling.” This law states that a tutorial will not let a learner have to Google anything for as long as possible and for as little as possible.<\/p>\n
I’ve followed the Django<\/a> Tutorial all the way to the end<\/a>. I did not use Google once, which means Django follows The Law of Least Googling.<\/p>\n Because of this, I am now recommending that any person new to web development use Django.<\/strong><\/p>\n I used to think Rails was the way to go but because of the dependency mess with having to use Rake 0.8.7 to get RSpec working correctly, I am less inclined. Rails is a pain to install on Windows. You also have to google how to get the MySQL gem installed<\/a>. This is not ideal when SQLite can’t get installed for some reason.<\/p>\n But once you get Rails running it’s great, but as a newbie, I wouldn’t be surprised if lots of folks already gave up.<\/p>\n Rails isn’t that bad. It hits these 3 snags:<\/p>\n Now if we’re talking LAMP, then forget it. It’s easy to get going with something like MAMP<\/a>, or WAMP, but the frameworks simply don’t have that install and learn to code feel that Rails or Django has. You really cannot use a PHP framework without having to resort to Google very early. For example with CodeIgniter I have to figure out how to point my doc root correctly via Googling.<\/p>\n\n