Best web app developing language to write a client/server app for Bingo game scenario

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Good morning,
I have the following scenario to develop.

Let's start from the assert I have low experience in web development, I am more focused towards desktop programming, but this could be an advantage, because I have no prejudices towards any solution.

The scenario to model is this. We need to create a web-based application which should be compatible with every mobile os and device (or at least with the most of them).
This app should mainly give to the user the possibility to ckeck the billboards he bought during a match of bingo game.

This bingo game is real, played in a bingo hall, not on the web, but the customers of the hall will be able, through their devices (tablet, smartphones) to connect to a dedicated wireless network in order to enter the billboards they bought in a window and to see during the bingo game match, how many numbers of their billboards had been checked and if they did cinquina (a line, five in a row) or a bingo (the full billboard, 15 numbers).

In order to give a little modeling layout, I imagined that the best solution should be this.
- server role: the server sends to the clients some information about the matches, for example, the range of billboards that could be played, the extracted numbers in realtime, and so on; it gets from each client the range of billboards they bought; it "plays" the billboards, I mean during the balls extraction, it marks the corresponding numbers on the billboards received by clients for that match and it sends this information to the corresponding clients; finally, it signals to the corresponding clients if they scored cinquina or bingo.
- client role: the client is the web-based application which receives from the server the information about the bingo matches, it sends to server the billboards the customer bought, it shows to the customer the extracting balls, the marked numbers in the billboards and the event if the customer won cinquina or bingo.

I thought to give the weight of billboards checking only to server rather than distributing to the clients because in this phase I don't really know how the diversity of devices that work as clients could give delays in the case that the billboards checking should be moved from server to client. The most important requirement is that, in every case, every action should happen in real-time, or at least with minimum delay, not more than 1.5-2 seconds.

Now my question is as simple, as difficult to answer: Which is the best programming language to model this scenario?
I know that there are many programming languages, even if I know that the main languages for this particular situation would be ASP.NET, php, Java (and maybe HTML5).

I include HTML5 in this list because it is very well oriented to cross-platform development and to mobile world, even if it uses (if I understood correctly) javascript in order to do the "dirty job".

I leave this question opened to all your considerations. You should feel free to suggest everything, even changes in my little modeling I talked to you, but the most important question is always the one related to the programming language.
Thanks for your great support.
Nino

Posted 25-Feb-15 22:13pm

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Matej Hlatky · Answer 1 · 2015-02-27T00:04:00

Hi Nino,

Just in short, there is no right answer to question „Which is the best programming language to model this scenario“. Some may say Node.js, Ruby, Python ... or any other language, but my recommendation is to stick with the programming language you know best – .NET or Java (as you wrote you are familiar with the desktop apps).

Use HTML5 for client web app plus one of the many JavaScript frameworks for building dynamic web apps. I dn’t know how the Bingo game works, but you should be OK with basic styled tables. Maybe use some Canvas or SVG for advanced graphics, but it all depends on your needs.

Because your web app will need to communicate in real time, I would suggest you to use WebSockets. See the caniuse.com for support in mobile browsers. There is also many JS wrappers, that will try to use other technologies as a fallback if WebSockets are not supported by client browser.
Use existing libraries and don’t try to reinvent the weel!

Also be aware of real environment – your office with small amount of clients on one Wifi access point is not the same as 50 people on one sh@#!y Wifi.

I do not mean to offend you, but from your question it looks that it will be very challenging for you to successfully complete this project.

Hope this helps and good luck.