Ask HN: What is your go-to stack for the web? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by gregnavis » Fri, Feb 09, 2024, 9:12 AM UTC

I love vanilla Rails (that includes Hotwire) + Postgres + Heroku + Tailwind. I do often use Rubocop and some other rolling, and want to package that as a project starter kit.

I’m looking forward to seeing Rails 8 in action, as is going to make building PWAs easier.

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

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Post by ahofmann » Fri, Feb 09, 2024, 9:13 AM UTC

assimpleaspossi wrote: post #27

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.

Yes, exactly. And because all of this is bundled in laravel (and at some point I learned working with the framework), I'm using this since years for almost everything.

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

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Feb 09, 2024, 9:14 AM UTC

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

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Post by grigarav » Fri, Feb 09, 2024, 9:17 AM UTC

Front-end: A few static sites (i.e. landing page) + Angular. Back-End: A few C# APIs with Redis for caching. Database: MongoDB + SQL Server. Deployment: Docker Containers on Azure via DevOps Pipelines (one-click deployment).

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

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Post by miroljub » Fri, Feb 09, 2024, 9:17 AM UTC

Clojure using for the server side https://github.com/kit-clj/kit

htmx for frontend, using the built-in kit htmx module.

Previously I used Clojure, re-frame and websockets using sente. It is very productive, but now I prefer the lightweight feeling of htmx.

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

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Post by oaxacaoaxaca » Fri, Feb 09, 2024, 9:17 AM UTC

Frontend:

- "vanilla" React (no Next.js or any other framework-y bloat)

- MUI

- React Router (v5 because v6 is a pain)

Backend:

- Node

- Typescript

- Express

- Prisma or Sequelize

- Sometimes Django/DRF in lieu of the above

- MySQL or Postgres

Deployment:

- KISS principle: one Digital Ocean droplet, no serverless or any of that

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

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Post by threeseed » Fri, Feb 09, 2024, 9:18 AM UTC

I've tried so many and still love Scala.js + React / Scala.

One language, one tooling, one set of models etc across the entire stack is just so much nicer.

And you never have to worry about performance, scalability or lack of libraries.

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

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Post by AussieWog93 » Fri, Feb 09, 2024, 9:19 AM UTC

For a website? Wordpress honestly works pretty well if you don't install 20+ plugins.

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

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Post by e61133e3 » Fri, Feb 09, 2024, 9:19 AM UTC

HTML & CSS

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

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Post by mkl » Fri, Feb 09, 2024, 9:21 AM UTC

There are a ton of past threads on this, many valuable, and some huge. You can find them by searching [Ask HN web] (or stack or framework, etc.) in the search box at the bottom. Here are some decent-sized ones going back to 2016, but there are many more. I figure if something is recommended a few years ago and also recently, it's probably good, stable, and well-documented.

Ask HN: If you were to build a web app today what tech stack would you choose? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38059036 (92 points by russianbandit 3 months ago | 208 comments)

Ask HN: What does your self hosted stack look like? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37164315 (52 points by LorenDB 5 months ago | 41 comments)

Ask HN: Which stack is as boring (good boring) and cheap in 2023 as PHP? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35112481 (38 points by alentred 11 months ago | 46 comments)

Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34530052 (459 points by nvln on Jan 26, 2023 | 727 comments)

Ask HN: Solo Dev Stack of 2022? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33046696 (40 points by jstummbillig on Oct 1, 2022 | 81 comments)

Ask HN: Help me pick a front-end framework https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32799003 (141 points by bjackman on Sept 11, 2022 | 177 comments)

Ask HN: Web frameworks – which less popular frameworks are you using and why? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31607256 (84 points by vanilla-almond on June 3, 2022 | 147 comments)

Ask HN: What tech stack would you use to build a new web app today? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29626371 (48 points by gt565k on Dec 20, 2021 | 73 comments)

Ask HN: Which tech stack is the most fun? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29625165 (100 points by chickenWing on Dec 20, 2021 | 184 comments)

Ask HN: Simplest stack to build web apps in 2021? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29311761 (99 points by yblu on Nov 22, 2021 | 188 comments)

Ask HN: Which stack for prototyping? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26851533 (57 points by tbronchain on April 18, 2021 | 99 comments)

Ask HN: Fastest/easiest framework to build a web application in 2020? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22161880 (77 points by ryanSrich on Jan 27, 2020 | 89 comments)

Ask HN: What tech stack would you choose for building your next app? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21807469 (39 points by _fwu1 on Dec 16, 2019 | 52 comments)

Ask HN: Go-to web stack today? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18829557 (542 points by capkutay on Jan 5, 2019 | 443 comments)

Ask HN: What stack would you use to build a CRUD web app in 2018? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16508965 (189 points by xstartup on March 3, 2018 | 178 comments)

Ask HN: What tech stack would you choose for a serious, long-term business app https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16763981 (44 points by bballer on April 5, 2018 | 78 comments)

Ask HN: Which stack do you use at your startup? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16390851 (88 points by xstartup on Feb 16, 2018 | 126 comments)

Ask HN: What language/framework do you plan to use in your next project? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14864389 (119 points by _pfxa on July 27, 2017 | 258 comments)

Ask HN: Starting a project today, which web framework would you use? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14391951 (94 points by betimd on May 22, 2017 | 155 comments)

Ask HN: What web framework do you use? Why did you choose it? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13254051 (71 points by moraya-re on Dec 25, 2016 | 118 comments)

Ask HN: What is a “boring” web stack? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12866695 (51 points by stevetodd on Nov 3, 2016 | 48 comments)

Ask HN: What are the best web tools to build basic web apps as of October 2016? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12774616 (114 points by arikr on Oct 23, 2016 | 82 comments)