Which tool should I use to build a simple dynamic website in 2020?

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Experienced C programmer here. I need to build a very simple website for personal usage with: - Password-protected login to hide every single page behind - A single sqlite database with possibly a single table (maybe a second single-line table to store my login + pw-hash + salt) - A single page to upload stuff to the database. Some kind of asynchronous JS instead of HTML forms may be preferred. - A single page that always shows the same database query - Very infrequent access to the site (not more than once per day) - There's basically zero chance that this would grow to something bigger. Maybe just extend the site functionality to allow my wife to also use it, and maybe find a way to interact with it from command line on Linux (but probably by doing HTTPS requests). I did something like this with PHP back in 2007, but I know PHP is not very recommended. I worry that trying to learn a whole framework like Ruby on Rails or Django may be overkill. I really like Ruby as a programming

Published 6 Oct 2020
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