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Re: Ask HN: If you are starting in 2024, what is the most productive solo dev stack?

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Post by itake »

throwitaway1123 wrote: post #66
itake wrote: post #65

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someone told me about vite. ill try that out next. I switched to astro for a blog after giving up with nextjs, and it works pretty well for a blog. not sure about a front end app though.

You could build a blog with Vite and @mdx-js/react, but that honestly might be overkill. Astro is definitely tailored towards the blog use case. Gatsby is another older framework that's oriented more towards building a blog, but I'm not a huge fan of how it insists on making you use GraphQL. Eleventy is another popular choice for JS powered static sites if you're not set on using React.

I’ve used gatsby before and it’s clunky and not well supported any more.

Re: Ask HN: If you are starting in 2024, what is the most productive solo dev stack?

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Post by meiraleal »

createaccount99 wrote: post #79
huahaiy wrote: post #26

Clojure/clojurescript

Isn't cljs kinda deprecated now that google closure compiler got shut down?

That's great news! I'll check clojurescript again when they get ride of Google closure

Re: Ask HN: If you are starting in 2024, what is the most productive solo dev stack?

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Post by giancarlostoro »

lostmsu wrote: post #56
giancarlostoro wrote: post #32

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I agree with this sentiment. I know half a dozen or even a dozen programming languages (some more than others obviously) and my first project is almost always a web project. Not every language has a decent streamlined / full feature web framework (I really havent found one for Rust yet that has everything OOTB) so you have to build your own pieces (which I've done with CherryPy, though learning Django was a boost, im…

Have you tried Python.NET? (I am a co-maintainer) https://github.com/pythonnet/pythonnet

I have not, but just might! Are you guys embedding CPython or doing an IronPython approach?

Re: Ask HN: If you are starting in 2024, what is the most productive solo dev stack?

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Post by balder1991 »

muzani wrote: post #73
balder1991 wrote: post #43

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I gotta say, back when I worked in an old company they built a service for a client using Parse Server that still works great today, although nowadays it is fully self hosted. It has its limitations, but it’s a good abstraction for simple use cases, and it handles a lot of traffic without problems.

What do you mean by fully self hosted? Not on heroku? On a physical server? Some confuse it with Parse, which ran on their PaaS, before it was open sourced. I do like it as a middle "low code option" as opposed to the complex no code options like Wordpress or doing the whole stack to build something that might not even sell. Honestly, Firebase has caught up to it in development speed and documentation, but Firebase f…

I meant they have an AWS instance with Parse Server running nowadays. It currently deals with a lot of government parking services in the southeast of Brazil. Kinda cool to see it keep existing so far, and I have a friend who managed to keep it reasonably updated with the current version of Parse Server.

Re: Ask HN: If you are starting in 2024, what is the most productive solo dev stack?

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Post by balder1991 »

cweagans wrote: post #37
muzani wrote: post #17

I'll still keep shilling Parse Server + Parse Dashboard for back end. It's open source, it plugs into MongoDB, which is very scalable for when the day comes to replace it with something else. It has things like auth, password reset, cloud functions, etc built in, and there's tutorials for email adapters. It does much of the things you can do on Firebase, but easier and cheaper. Dealing with the DB is extremely easy t…

You might be interested in Pocketbase. Lots of overlap. It’s really good.

At least it seems not to need 600 dependencies like Parse Server does.

Re: Ask HN: If you are starting in 2024, what is the most productive solo dev stack?

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Post by lostmsu »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #83
lostmsu wrote: post #56

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Have you tried Python.NET? (I am a co-maintainer) https://github.com/pythonnet/pythonnet

I have not, but just might! Are you guys embedding CPython or doing an IronPython approach?

CPython. I used it for TensorFlow in my previous startup.

Re: Ask HN: If you are starting in 2024, what is the most productive solo dev stack?

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Post by dysoco »

simonw wrote: post #33

Part of my stack selection process these days is considering how well LLM tools like ChatGPT and Claude "know" the stack in question. Using libraries that have been around for a few years and have accumulated a lot of training data is a huge productivity boost here, because LLM tools can both write code that uses them and usefully explain and debug them when they go wrong. It's weird and a little uncomfortable to hav…

I recently started writing a toy kernel in the Zig programming language and I came upon this realization. The Copilot support was really bad and it was trying to autocomplete with C code, which was correct semantically but wasn't valid Zig code.

It might seem non-important to many, but I was writing a big amount of boilerplate code, tests, etc. and I have a feeling I would've been much more productive just sticking with C.

Re: Ask HN: If you are starting in 2024, what is the most productive solo dev stack?

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Post by kirso »

ivylee wrote: post #85

I rebuilt my personal website[1] (static site) using Astro[2], and it was a pleasant experience. [1]: https://ivylee.github.io/ [2]: https://astro.build/

For static sites Astro is the way!

What do you use for more interactive / app like experiences?

Specifically I need to call external APIs to retrieve data, store it, and then call another API to send some of the adjust results in the body.

Re: Ask HN: If you are starting in 2024, what is the most productive solo dev stack?

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Post by kirso »

_waqas_ali_ wrote: post #76

React with Next.js (including API routes), Tailwind for styling, docker to containerise it, DigitalOcean to deploy it for cheap

Frankly I think I am too dumb for React, which seems more like an enterprise tooling rather than focusing on simplicity and productivity.
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