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Ask HN: If you were to build a web app today what tech stack would you choose?

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Re: Ask HN: If you were to build a web app today what tech stack would you choose?

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Post by pelletier »

You mention it's a passion project. If technology is the center of that passion, then pick what you're passionate or curious about!

If not: the tried but true Rails + Postgres.

Add more things only when needed. For example Alpine.js if a bit of interaction that's not covered by Rails' Turbo. If the need for background processing arises, bring in the good_job gem, and there may be no need to deploy it separately at first.

For hosting I'm not quite sure these days. Heroku may be on life-support, but its feature-set covers most basis.

Re: Ask HN: If you were to build a web app today what tech stack would you choose?

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Post by shreedx »

SvelteKit + 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.

Re: Ask HN: If you were to build a web app today what tech stack would you choose?

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Post by issa »

edent wrote: post #16

LAMP. It can easily be maintained by a single developer. Scales well enough for a decent number of users. Huge ecosystem of components. Easy to deploy to literally any web host. Wide variety of front-end systems. If you need to scale, it can do that. Developers for it are plentiful. But you can always rewrite it in the flavour-of-the-month framework when you hit either scale or money.

Never underestimate the value of tried and true solutions!

Re: Ask HN: If you were to build a web app today what tech stack would you choose?

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Post by xhkkffbf »

supportengineer wrote: post #22
edent wrote: post #16

LAMP. It can easily be maintained by a single developer. Scales well enough for a decent number of users. Huge ecosystem of components. Easy to deploy to literally any web host. Wide variety of front-end systems. If you need to scale, it can do that. Developers for it are plentiful. But you can always rewrite it in the flavour-of-the-month framework when you hit either scale or money.

Agree but with Postgres instead

I'm having great luck with SQLite. Most of the content is cached in ram so there aren't many hits on the db.

Re: Ask HN: If you were to build a web app today what tech stack would you choose?

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Post by traverseda »

Django/flask/qaurt (depending on what features I need), htmx, and any more complicated stuff (client side terminal emulator, client side text editor) wrapped in individual web components. Probably use sakura.css to start with for css.
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