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

Django because in a word of constantly changing frameworks and approaches it’s nice to have something solid. New versions add improvements but Django is basically still the same as it has been for almost 20 years. It’s really fast to build things with as well and the Admin is amazing (just don’t try to overuse it).

Recently HTMX has been a really nice addition, adding some fanciness without writing more JS.

Some bits are just easier to do as full on JavaScript components and for those I use React because I know it and it does the job. Just for bits though (often as small as one component in a otherwise vanilla Django form), SPAs are a pain to write and maintain.

I have a SaaS so that’s mostly what I’m doing.

these days I’m often using Supabase on backend, Nextjs+Vercel frontend

it has increased my speed to market massively. I mostly work on enterprise CRUD apps so getting things like SSO and API for free on Supabase is a great time saver

and then some apps require more specialized functionality and for that I’ll leverage the AWS stack

Roda: Routing Tree Web Toolkit fur Ruby [0].

Sequel: The Database Toolkit for Ruby [1]

Front end could be anything including no javascript. Roda makes it very easy to either write APIs or server rendered partials.

I love the simplicity, clarity and performance of this stack.

[0]: https://github.com/jeremyevans/roda

[1]: https://github.com/jeremyevans/sequel

These days I am doing HPC software development, so not much web development. Over the last few years I used to work as a senior lecturer and then a junior professor at a university, where my group worked with web tech quite a bit.

We used PHP/Laravel for developing a scientific SaaS prototype [1] and Python/Django for teaching web application development [2]. For documentation (including teaching materials, blogging), we had a preference for static site generator (Jamstack) solutions: we used Sphinx and later switched to MkDocs [3, 4].

[1] https://group.miletic.net/en/publications/#2021

[2] https://group.miletic.net/hr/nastava/kolegiji/PW/#vjezbe

[3] https://group.miletic.net/en/blog/2017-07-29-why-we-use-rest...

[4] https://group.miletic.net/en/blog/2021-08-16-markdown-vs-res...

For pure APIs: pyapi-server [0]. For classic Web sites: Starlette [1], with SQLAlchemy Core [2] for database integration. Or, if you prefer something with more batteries included, FastAPI [3].

[0] https://pyapi-server.readthedocs.io

[1] https://www.starlette.io/

[2] https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/20/

[3] https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/