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Posted by Estevan Montoya
Estevan Montoya
Courses Plus Student 23,989 Points

Stuck trying to figure which track to take.

Hello, I am looking to take my basic knowledge further, and create a few simple web applications for myself as a pastor. If these applications suit me well, I am looking to offer them to other fellow ministry leaders as basic saas products.

That being said, I am at a crossroad. I would like to develop a simple application that would be easy to migrate into a cross platform mobile app.

What would you learn first? My hangup is that I can easily deploy on my current host using PHP or Ruby, but it wouldn't be easy to deploy as a mobile/tablet app.

I have also seen the ease one can have in developing in Node.js for transition to native mobile apps. Deploying a Node.js app is not as easy or cost efficient. Especially if I am only using the apps personally for the next few months, or year.

If I want to create a web application with the potential to scale it a mobile application, which track is best?

Also, what things would one consider in the beginning if such future scaling is a possibility? APIs, CDNs, frameworks, dedicated servers, etc?

Thanks!

1 Answer

tobiaskrause
tobiaskrause
9,160 Points
tobiaskrause
tobiaskrause
9,160 Points

Maybe take a look at Phonegap. Its easy to create mobile apps with html/css + js. Also you can use it on all plattforms. There're also frameworks for Ruby to build mobile apps like RubyMotion. There are a lot of frameworks just google a bit and take a look for ressources.

Estevan Montoya
Estevan Montoya
Courses Plus Student 23,989 Points

I've looked into a few places. I guess I am confused about starting out on a general website and converting it to a native mobile app that syncs across all platforms.