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Amber Lim
772 Pointshow are platforms like wattpad built?
I have an idea of starting an online writing platform like Wattpad. What are the programming languages I have to learn to build a responsive platform like that?
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Steven Parker
229,783 PointsCertainly you'd want to be familiar with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript - the "big three" of front end development.
But much of something like this is in the server, or "back end", and will include both application and database components. For those you have several choices.
PHP and Ruby/Rails are popular server languages, but Python and JavaScript(Node) (yes, the same as used in the front end) are growing in popularity for server app development. And large commercial apps are often built using C#/.NET or VB/.NET. Plus there's also Perl, Scala, Java, Go and ColdFusion (but all less popular). Lot's of choices!
Finally, most traditional databases use some variety of SQL, but the emerging NoSQL technology is becoming very popular.
Your choices might be partially guided by what's available on the hosting platform you will be using. Otherwise, look around the web, there are plenty of discussions comparing the value of each of these languages with each other.