Probably Laravel + Inertia + React/Vue/Svelte
Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?
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Re: Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?
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I'm glad I came across your comment, I'm planning a 2-week project for learning purposes and I thought rails backend with react/ svelte would be the fastest way to prototype. My ruby/ rails experience is very limited compared to my JS experience; I really just started experimenting with rails. I'm blown away by the magic, JS frameworks feel like toys in comparison. I also like that Rails is omakase. Based on your exp…
imo rails without react and leveraging hotwire is going to be the next big thing in web dev. react is a huge increase in complexity for not much appreciable gain. you are not facebook and don't have facebook's needs. rails is nimble by itself.
I would love to learn more about this. As a complete beginner though I tried to find resources for full-stack Rails and unfortunately there is nothing much there that teaches you the new front-end or shows how to build an MVP.
Compared to that JS ecosystem perhaps has too much :)
Re: Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?
#693Definitely still Rails for me, both for personal projects and for work. There are so many hidden requirements in SaaS products that have been baked into Rails and popular rubygems, getting to build on top of all that work is wonderful. It also makes coming back to a project to update it in a few months/years standard and simple. If you haven't played around with Rails for a bit, things have gotten simpler in the past…
I replied on a different comment. I was faced with the decision to learn Rails or JS frameworks but I couldn't really find a lot of Rails tutorials or resources to build an app with Hotwire and the new front-end features. It's kind of a shame but there is not a lot of updated stuff out there.
Re: Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?
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Same, Next.js, Vercel, Prisma, Supabase. I push to my GitHub repo and the site is live and deployed in less than a minute. With the stack you can use the same language, DTOs, libraries, etc.. both server and client side. Server side rendering ensures a graceful handoff between server rendered state and the resulting app state on the client. I’m also using MUI which includes all the components you need for a front end…
This stack is pretty incomplete for most MVPs, as unless you're building something trivial like a landing page, you'll probably at some point also need libraries or a custom implementation for: - Validations - Translations - Error and request logging and auditing - Security (CQRS, CORS, CSRF) - Permissions and a way to integrate it with your authentication (does supabase handle this? don't know) - Email sending - Bac…
Maybe next js instead of supabase?
Re: Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?
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For context I'm someone who spent nearly 20 years doing almost exclusively python dev, attended the first DjangoCon in 2008, ran the Django community blog during its formation heyday back in the mid 2000's and built tons of Django modules, apps, sites etc, have commits on the Project from way-back, tech edited Django books, etc... Did rails for a short while in 2010-2012 and absolutely hated it then spent 2012-2020 d…
Be aware that firebase or aws are only good until you have actual traffic. So in many cases you just loose time you spent understanding their managed infra. I would advice to go with Linode. As a bonus you get to lean new techs that are not tied to crazy managed pricing :)
Any tutorials for handling next js and a private server ( like linode)
Re: Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?
#696NoCode for MVP
Likely Adalo or Bubble, and Xano (stand alone DB with API)
Fast, easy to work with and adjust - it's a MVP.
Re: Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?
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Did a big migration from Flask to Django for my main side project for all of these reasons earlier this year. I love Django. It's criminally underrated. Side project if anyone's interested in peeping it: https://www.fpgajobs.com
I’d imagine many are curious like me … are you making any money on this? I have a similar Niche job site I’m thinking of
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Re: Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?
#698Hhere is quick survey : Regarding backend choices: curl "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34530052" | grep -i Django | wc -l 36 curl "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34530052" | grep -i supabase | wc -l 17 curl "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34530052" | grep -i rails | wc -l 28 curl "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34530052" | grep -i node | wc -l 15 curl "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=345…
curl "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34530052" | grep -i Go | wc -l
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Re: Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?
#699After working with the PETAL (Phoenix, Elixir, TailwindCSS, Alpine.Js, Liveview) stack at $JOB for a while now, I have to say I've never been more productive. Early on I would still have to lean on Alpine heavily for various JS interactions but with all the features Liveview has been adding and improving on (Hello JS module!) I find myself needing it less and less. Liveview really has been a game changer for me. Tail…
Fly.io is great!
Re: Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?
#700Earlier quoted context omitted.
For context I'm someone who spent nearly 20 years doing almost exclusively python dev, attended the first DjangoCon in 2008, ran the Django community blog during its formation heyday back in the mid 2000's and built tons of Django modules, apps, sites etc, have commits on the Project from way-back, tech edited Django books, etc... Did rails for a short while in 2010-2012 and absolutely hated it then spent 2012-2020 d…
Be aware that firebase or aws are only good until you have actual traffic. So in many cases you just loose time you spent understanding their managed infra. I would advice to go with Linode. As a bonus you get to lean new techs that are not tied to crazy managed pricing :)
If the traffic to your app is generating a significant Firebase bill then you have probably moved from MVP to successful app territory. Would you rather start managing more infra or focus on keep building features that add value to the app?