Welcome to the Treehouse Community

Want to collaborate on code errors? Have bugs you need feedback on? Looking for an extra set of eyes on your latest project? Get support with fellow developers, designers, and programmers of all backgrounds and skill levels here with the Treehouse Community! While you're at it, check out some resources Treehouse students have shared here.

Looking to learn something new?

Treehouse offers a seven day free trial for new students. Get access to thousands of hours of content and join thousands of Treehouse students and alumni in the community today.

Start your free trial

General Discussion

Posted by Julian Price
Julian Price
11,760 Points

How to determine a websites BACKEND FRAMEWORK

I am curious is there away to determine from and dev tools that can tell you the backend is running on such as php or rails are the most I hear of here.

3 Answers

Tom Bedford
Tom Bedford
15,645 Points
Tom Bedford
Tom Bedford
15,645 Points

Try builtwith, e.g. results for teamtreehouse.com

Julian Price
Julian Price
11,760 Points

Thanks very helpful. What does it mean when 2 of sites just show nqinx server and amazon cdn in addition the to stand javascripts.

The other two sites showed RAILS twice but 1 php. so I assuming the something like blog is using PHP.

I guess I need to learn a little more about Rails. I have spent so much time with working with wordpress and trying to learn php that it may not be the right solution for my over project :)

Tom Bedford
Tom Bedford
15,645 Points

I often see things I'm unfamiliar with in the results and search the names to gain some insight!

I believe nqinx is a server technology (like apache). Amazon cdn (content delivery network) could be for delivering static assets (e.g. images or videos) from different data centers around the world to allow faster downloads/loading for users.

Sebastian Wilson
Sebastian Wilson
15,710 Points

Useful link Tom +1

Julian Price
Julian Price
11,760 Points
Julian Price
Julian Price
11,760 Points

Well Tom Bedford I was trying to give you points /thumbs up but don't see the vote up option anymore

Tom Bedford
Tom Bedford
15,645 Points

That feature always seems temperamental :)

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

In this particular case, this thread is in the general category which has never had voting.

Sebastian Wilson
Sebastian Wilson
15,710 Points

Shouldn't a useful comment deserve an up vote no matter where it's posted?

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

Upvotes only (a la reddit) and answers that are ranked by upvotes (a la stack overflow) are kinda different mental models.

Julian Price
Julian Price
11,760 Points
Julian Price
Julian Price
11,760 Points

I had to place in General Section because you did not have a tag for BackEnd Frameworks. I guess i should have ask about Dev Tools to determine because I knew my question did not relate to just Rails or Php :)

I fun James Barnett