Good day, Stackoverflow community.
I've been little bit out of touch with current best practices for scalable web-application design/development. This is more of an ask for help to point in right direction.
I am planning an application with React.js on the front-end. There are still lots of shady/gray areas on how to structure the rest of the application. For example after some research I found that there were some suggestions to do the following:
- React (or Angular) front-end runs on Node/Express server
- The same server manages User authentication with ACL
- User data is stored in MongoDB (or any other light weight) with direct access from front-end server
- API is run separately on any other framework (Java, Go, Python, etc) but on the same domain (for example api.something.com)
- API/application data is stored in separate database (Mongo, Postgress, MySQL, Oracle, etc)
- All 3rd party API services are managed though API
What else should I consider and is there a resource that would guide me through best full stack architecture patterns? I know there are lots of resources, but it is mid 2018 and lots of patterns evolved drastically.
Thanks in advance!