Beginner looking for some direction

[Gidiolf]

I’m looking for a bit of direction here.

I’m creating a webapp that is very simple in design and I want to know if JS is the best approach.

To simplify what I am looking for this is what I want to accomplish:

Four buttons (there will be more eventually). You click on them to select from a variety of pictures (100+).

Each button will have check boxes associate with them to ‘flag’ them as primary, secondary or tertiary.

And the most important part… generate a link you can share to others with the choices you have selected.

I have some background with web design and programming but I’m wondering what is the simplest (and quickest) way to go about this.

[Senff]

I have some background with web design and programming but I’m wondering what is the simplest (and quickest) way to go about this.

Simplest and quickest: hire someone else to do it for you.

Probably better: doing it yourself, using JS indeed. I’m not entirely sure what you want to do, so perhaps you should start out with creating something in Codepen.io and show it to us, so we can help you out with that.

[nkrisc]

If you’re building an interactive experience in the browser, you’re almost assuredly going to be using JavaScript no matter what.

I think the real question is does this app live entirely in the browser or do you need a backend for it?

[Gidiolf]

Thanks for the replies! Here is a very simple representation of what I want to accomplish.

http://www.starkgaming.com/PP/example.png

@Senff Have been considering hiring someone but… #startup life. I’m working on staging the site and coding what I can for additional help.

@Paulie_D I made the image above, let me know if you have any thoughts.

@nkrisc There will be a database for the URLs, but other then that it should be entirely browser based.

[nkrisc]

There’s a lot of things you could go with, but something like Meteor http://www.meteor.com might help you get something prototyped and working quickly. It’s not the right solution for everything (in terms of a production app) but it’s very easy to get a working prototype app up and running. Meteor works well for single-page apps.

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