I'd use Ruby on Rails with Hotwire. For building a SaaS quickly, it's my go-to framework.
Ask HN: If you were to build a web app today what tech stack would you choose?
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#202Backend: Go, SQLite
Frontend: Flutter
If Flutter is not possible or suitable than htmx + bulma (or w3c, pico etc..).
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#203What you know best!
For me it would be:
*Django* for backend with the built-in templates. No frontend backend split.
TailwindCSS for styling.
StimulusJS for sprinkling JS wherever needed, which is not very often.
Postgres as my DB (although if I'm not integrating Stripe, SQLite will suffice).
Maybe Redis for caching and as a broker for background tasks, if needed.
Re: Ask HN: If you were to build a web app today what tech stack would you choose?
#204What you know best! For me it would be: *Django* for backend with the built-in templates. No frontend backend split. TailwindCSS for styling. StimulusJS for sprinkling JS wherever needed, which is not very often. Postgres as my DB (although if I'm not integrating Stripe, SQLite will suffice). Maybe Redis for caching and as a broker for background tasks, if needed.
What if you don't know any? :)
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#205I'm surprised nobody said they'd use [Yew](https://yew.rs/), especially given the premise of this being for a passion project.
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#206Does anybody still use Perl 5?
Yes! Mojolicious & Dancer2 are perfect for web development in Perl
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#207Posting here so I can refer back to this...
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#208SvelteKit + Supabase to do it quick and dirty. Since I am not the best programmer out there (my day to day job is product owner), it allows me to actually finish my projects and validate them with the market within days instead of months. I can totally see how a senior fullstack dev would have a completely different approach though.
I’m curious why you think this approach is “dirty”. I can see the “quick” part. Care to share?
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#209I built this site recently with Blazor: https://gpsoutage.com
It runs completely on the client and is hosted for free on Azure. There is a lot of support for Blazor and as a .Net backend dev, I didn't have to learn too much front-end code. I'd definitely choose Blazor again.
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#210The answer to this kind of question is always "whatever you're most comfortable/productive with" For me personally, I've been working on one that's pretty app-y and used Postgres + Deno + React/MobX (built with esbuild) I'm very comfortable and happy with TypeScript, so I like having it on both ends (especially because I can share types between the two sides of the wire). And Deno and esbuild make the tooling story r…
This, with the added mention that if you intend to turn this into a business and hire people, choose something that is easy to hire for.