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solid and tauri for apps, astro for content sites (with a headless cms if it’s big)
Which headless CMS do you recommend?
Postgrest + Petite-vue + One of the many classless css frameworks.
CSS or SCSS depending on complexity
If it's something that needs logins or more common features I'll usually switch to rails it just gets all the tedious stuff out of the way!
PHP has many stable frameworks if you are in to that and if you don't want to use a framework you can run vanilla PHP without a problem.
Dependency management is done these days with composer and it is easy add a dependency, like framework or library, from composer.
PHP has has lot of good tooling like IDEs, linters, testing etc.
Here is a short intro to PHP I wrote a few years ago.
I'm playing with Sveltekit + Trpc Backend + DrizzleOrm + Postgres. I am using plain Javascript + JSDoc and Typescript checking.
My SaaS uses SvelteKit, SQLite and Sequelize, but I would probably try Drizzle if I was starting today.
I pick what I know best and "just works" because of my experience and the framework's maturity. YMMV Backend: Spring Boot (Java or Kotlin depending on solo vs cooperation) Frontend: React (" https://hilla.dev/ " looks interesting, might try that next) Database: Postgres
When I got more serious at one point in my life I used BBEdit.
I found Firefox's development tools very useful as well.