Ask HN: What is your go-to stack for the web?

Saas with a bit of data engineering mixed in: Mongo elastic react (nextjs) gql python spark LLM

Django: function based views.

UI: Django templates, htmx, tailwind, vanilla js or hypersceript, no build, no node, no npm. Avoiding writing js as much as possible.

Background workers: RQ with 3 priority queues

Deployment: Kamal one command deployment with underlying docker

Hosting: Linode server with backups

Storage: Mounted volume on the machine (maybe s3 eventually).

Benefits:

* High speed of iteration

* No boilerplate mess

* No build therefore no dealing with dependencies and npm rabbithole

* Fast deployment with Kamal (a bit of learning curve but once up just works)

* Much cheaper compared to PaaS. At least 50%.

* Multiple websites on the same instance

Of course I know django quite well so the goal is to remove as much friction as possible.

Backend: FastAPI + Pydantic + SQLModel (Python) Forntend: Vue/Nuxt Database: Postgres

I ran a web dev business for 20 years. It includes two sites you probably have visited and bought things from. We used HTML for HTML. CSS for CSS and Javascript for Javascript.

Then we used a common and popular programming language to make them all work together.

It was compatible with everything. Worked everywhere. Interfaced with everything. And was as fast as hell.

No additional thinking or learning required.

BE: .Net minimal API, Entity Framework (SQLite or PG as database) FE: React + Tailwind and few other libraries