Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?

Post by lupex » Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 8:23 AM UTC

Towaway69 wrote: post #508

petercooper wrote: post #485

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There is so little out there about using Node-Red in this way that I would certainly love to see a writeup of the experience if ever you fancy it!

My experience also! It seems NR is only used for IoT and hobby projects but it definitely has more potential. What I use it for is api endpoint, email templates and sending emails, websockets and as admin tool (the dashboard). It requires a lot of discipline to keep the flows separate. Reuse of code is a challenge (very tempting just to copy and paste code) and generally to maintaining an overview (simply because of…

Post by quickthrower2 » Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 8:43 AM UTC

adrianthedev wrote: post #278

Nothing really beats Rails. Use something like Jumpstart (jumpstartrails.com) and Avo ( https://avohq.io ) and you scaffold a full consumer-ready app in literally a few hours. The thing that bugs me the most with Next.JS and the whole JAMStack movement is that, yeah, you get from "git clone" to deployed on Vercel in two minutes, but if you need to create real app features like a sturdy admin, accounts, authorization,…

Post by nilsmagnus » Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 9:02 AM UTC

iainctduncan wrote: post #181

I am building one now as a single founder, with plans to never grow beyond a few people, and I'm using Clojure + Postgres (having done Python for almost 20 years!). I do technical due diligence for private equity companies for a living, and I evaluated two Clojure companies. It was amazing how much they could avoid in terms of problems as a small team by leveraging the JVMs concurrency and threading capabilities. No…

Post by lelanthran » Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 10:25 AM UTC

marcus_holmes wrote: post #614

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> The devspeed differential between things like C#/Java/Go and Python/PHP/Ruby is large only at the very beginning of your project. That's a massive hard-no for me. I generally only get faster the longer I get to work with a Ruby codebase, as I get to make it more and more into a DSL for the business situation. I never saw that happen with compiled languages; my speed tended to remain constant after the initial boot.…

I do wish for a Go REPL. I use tests for this - write exploratory code in tests, and then move it to the actual package when I'm happy with it, which isn't nearly as satisfying or fast. But again, the gains of coding in Go outweigh the costs (for me, I'm aware other people don't find the same).

    call dbl.tbl_create(....)

Post by physicsguy » Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 10:37 AM UTC

nelsonic wrote: post #437

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I’m not in London ;)

Noted. but responding to the “UK” comment; London is often a good guide/proxy for the UK tech scene. But for reference: there are quite a few universities in the UK where students are learning & using Elixir for distributed/embedded computing projects so these people will gradually filter through into the workforce. Also there are plenty of Ruby/Rails Devs who have embraced Elixir/Phoenix. But it’s a classic network…