Need opinions about tech project

[vascobrissos14]

I'm currently on my course's last year and I need to make a project to present about what I've learnt (and more).

 

I'm at the point where I need to gather ideas and start preparing the project.

 

I want to make a Project Planner. It'll have a Website, a DB and an API (for now).

 

I'm thinking of running the whole project on a Raspberry Pi 4.

 

For the Website, I'm going with HTML, JAVA, CSS, PHP, ETC.

For the DB, probably MySQL.

For the API, probably NodeJS.

Thinking about running the DB on an external HDD using USB 3.0.

 

My questions are:

Are all of the languages above compatible with each other?

Is the Raspberry Pi 4 powerful enough to run all of those together at the same time? If yes, which RAM version should I get? 2 or 4GB?

 

Thanks

[Slottr]

Can I ask what this class was?

 

I'm asking because I don't understand how you need to use these elements but don't know how they work/intertwine.

[vascobrissos14]

25 minutes ago, Slottr said:

Can I ask what this class was?

 

I'm asking because I don't understand how you need to use these elements but don't know how they work/intertwine.

No specific class. I have to do something related to all classes. From software (networking, programming (mostly)) to hardware.

[dizmo]

I don't get it. If this is what you've spent a great deal of time learning...why don't you know the answer? 

[wasab]

On 10/25/2019 at 11:51 AM, vascobrissos14 said:

For the Website, I'm going with HTML, JAVA, CSS, PHP, ETC.

I don't see how you can create a dynamic front end web page without using JavaScript. Even if you use templating engine like java jsp, which is a very old tech btw, it still converts the necessary code to part JavaScript.  

 

Are they compatible? Well yes as long as you design your application in mvc architecture and utilize microservices. In real world, apps like what neflixes run on is written in a Frankenstein mix of different langauges that just speak to each other over http rest requests. They do not use bindings, embed one language inside another, ect but just have proccesses communicate with each other over rest, over dozens of several different servers and machines. 

 

Terribly inefficient but extreamly productive and scalable. To get more performance, they just scale up or scale out the servers. 

[wasab]

13 hours ago, dizmo said:

I don't get it. If this is what you've spent a great deal of time learning...why don't you know the answer? 

Some people are just confuse by the choice of technology. Most of my classmates used nodejs/python flask for server side. A few who are clueless thinks a server written in C is a good idea and try to write restful APIs with them only to realize how unproductive that is compare to node and flask. 

 

I asked the same question in the programming subforum quite a while back. 

[Lord Bacon235]

most of them are shit

 

[Roswell]

14 minutes ago, Lord Bacon235 said:

most of them are shit

 

... most of them are integral parts of web development. What do you mean?