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Ask SN: Best modern, easy, LN-friendly front-end?

jeff

It does help, thank-you very much.  Because there is no "right" choice, it means there is no "wrong" answer.  That in and of itself is signal.  I can pick a path optimizing for other criteria.  

I did some searching based on your input, to check the resources out there for LN.  Here are my notes so far (maybe they will help somebody else).

# Lightning Community

TIL there is a [community hub](https://docs.lightning.engineering/) for building on LN with a [Guide](https://dev.lightning.community/guides/index.html).  And they have a javascript and python sections.

# Awesome Lightning

There is a [GitHub Repo](https://github.com/bcongdon/awesome-lightning-network) with an open PR calling out [WebLN Guide](https://www.webln.guide/) and a [Tutorial](https://github.com/bcongdon/awesome-lightning-network#tutorials) section.  

Bit old, this [Coindesk-Lightning](https://github.com/lightninglabs/lightning-coindesk) example app is all python, but also used Django targeting Heroku.

# Django

The community mentioned above has a [guide from 2022](https://dev.lightning.community/tutorial/04-webapp-integration/)

# Vue.js

I found [this](https://bestofvue.com/repo/reneaaron-lightning-widget) which has a repo for making the [widget](https://github.com/reneaaron/lightning-widget). 

# Next.js

I'm tempted to explore using this, just because the stacker.news [repo](https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news) exists and I can reason about the app's architecture & example.  Plus, maybe it might become easier for me to contribute.  

