happytables.com uses ThemeForce(https://github.com/themeforce/framework), an open source wordpress based framework to power its restaurant website service.<p>If you are asked to develop a SAAS application similar to happytables which language/framework/technologies you will choose? Why?<p>Here are some features you may need to implement :<p>1) Account Management & Billing System<p>2) Admin Backend : Where customers can login and update their website information. It should be available as both web & mobile app.<p>3) Front-End should be made available as installable themes (similar to wordpress themes). Third party developers should be able to develop a custom theme using HTML,CSS,javascript, etc.<p>4) REST API
This could be done with anything you are comfortable with.
I would personally use Ruby on Rails for this task. As this is what I know the best.
So here what you can use in Rails to do that:<p>- To manage your accounts you can use different auth gems: <a href="https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/categories/rails_authentication" rel="nofollow">https://www.ruby-toolbox.com/categories/rails_authentication</a> here is the big list of them.<p>- To make a billing system you can use: <a href="https://stripe.com/" rel="nofollow">https://stripe.com/</a><p>- There is a really easy approach for making REST API in Rails