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NextJS + Tailwind + Prisma + Vercel has been a nice discovery after Rails + Heroku. A bit more complex, but really fun and the community around Next/Vercel is super active.
I'm finding more and more that I just want to use JUCE to build apps, and be done with the platform wars entirely. It has pretty much everything I need in terms of UI elements, and it is so well laid out as a framework that I can almost just guess at things without having to do a lot of scurrying around to find docs and things. Definitely worth a look if you just want to build clean, efficient, platform-agnostic code…
I think you mean https://juce.com Pretty expensive for indie devs, though.
Go. Lower your pitchforks and hear me out: 1. Sensible defaults, can go very with just the stdlib: no choice paralysis between frameworks, mental overhead of setting up a project or ecosystem fragments to pick from. Just start with a main.go with net/http, add things along as you need them. 2. No ecosystem churn, whatever you write now will be idiomatic Go and build without issues for years to come. 3. Enough of a ty…
It's really fun and easy to make front and back-end apps with any combination of pre-rendering, client-side navigation, and server-side rendering on server-based or serverless platforms. To me SvelteKit makes it feel like there's finally a harmonious unity between the front and backends. Plus the dev experience is straight fire. Not quite at a 1.0 release unfortunately but I still love it.
Plus, Svelte was rated the most-loved framework in the StackOverflow developer survey this year: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3628231/developers-love-ru...
Go. Lower your pitchforks and hear me out: 1. Sensible defaults, can go very with just the stdlib: no choice paralysis between frameworks, mental overhead of setting up a project or ecosystem fragments to pick from. Just start with a main.go with net/http, add things along as you need them. 2. No ecosystem churn, whatever you write now will be idiomatic Go and build without issues for years to come. 3. Enough of a ty…
Go. Lower your pitchforks and hear me out: 1. Sensible defaults, can go very with just the stdlib: no choice paralysis between frameworks, mental overhead of setting up a project or ecosystem fragments to pick from. Just start with a main.go with net/http, add things along as you need them. 2. No ecosystem churn, whatever you write now will be idiomatic Go and build without issues for years to come. 3. Enough of a ty…
My least favourite is PHP.
SvelteKit! https://kit.svelte.dev/ It's really fun and easy to make front and back-end apps with any combination of pre-rendering, client-side navigation, and server-side rendering on server-based or serverless platforms. To me SvelteKit makes it feel like there's finally a harmonious unity between the front and backends. Plus the dev experience is straight fire. Not quite at a 1.0 release unfortunately but I still l…
pleasure == productivity ruby on rails is still awesome. But since you might have to work with react anyways...nextjs is a second. On the mobile side - Flutter is unparalleled. No seriously - im a react guy. And Dart is weird. But Flutter is seriously the Ruby on Rails of the mobile world.
Go. Lower your pitchforks and hear me out: 1. Sensible defaults, can go very with just the stdlib: no choice paralysis between frameworks, mental overhead of setting up a project or ecosystem fragments to pick from. Just start with a main.go with net/http, add things along as you need them. 2. No ecosystem churn, whatever you write now will be idiomatic Go and build without issues for years to come. 3. Enough of a ty…
In my eyes, Go is a pretty reasonable choice: the language is decent, simple enough to be learnt in a relatively short amount of time, is reasonably readable and doesn't force you to work in a really low level of abstraction.
The runtime is also pretty good and the static executables that can be generated are a major boon in my eyes! None of the pain of Python's packaging challenges and performance that's generally pretty good when compared to many of the alternatives.
Sure, it's not as established like Java or .NET are, especially in the enterprise space, but nonetheless it is very capable for everything from utilities and small tools to web apps.
Edit:
> As Rails has waned in popularity, has any other tech stack taken that crown?
Actually, after re-reading the original post, i'm not sure what the question is, exactly. In my eyes, the languages that are fun are whatever allows me to solve problems and see results (which is where a lot of satisfaction lies for me) relatively quickly: so anything from aforementioned Ruby, PHP (with select frameworks), Java (with select frameworks), .NET (Core or newer), Python, Node and so on are still fun in my eyes.
Was OP perhaps looking for languages that feel more "fresh" and are more hyped, while still having vibrant communities around them?