Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Ask HN: If you could have your tech team know one new thing

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

1–10 of 12 posts

Ask HN: If you could have your tech team know one new thing

#1

Post by zemariagp »

I'm a FE at a growing e-commerce startup. We have a small but experienced team of engineers. I was asked to present something at our tech meeting (can be anything). If you could make all your colleagues aware of ONE new or less known concept/tool/lesson, what would it be? Could range from one terminal command to a new team methodology...

Re: Ask HN: If you could have your tech team know one new thing

#3

Post by solardev »

Next.js. In 20 years of web dev, this is the single technology that's made me the happiest. It's the reason I chose to specialize in the FE and gave up the backend.

Coupled with a headless CMS (GraphQL is nice but not mandatory), this makes React a dream to work with, the pages super fast, the routing super simple, and the dev ex super fun.

One push to Vercel and you have a fully functional website, no AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, DNS, HTTPS, etc. to configure. It really is magic.

Re: Ask HN: If you could have your tech team know one new thing

#4

Post by patatino »

solardev wrote: post #3

Next.js. In 20 years of web dev, this is the single technology that's made me the happiest. It's the reason I chose to specialize in the FE and gave up the backend. Coupled with a headless CMS (GraphQL is nice but not mandatory), this makes React a dream to work with, the pages super fast, the routing super simple, and the dev ex super fun. One push to Vercel and you have a fully functional website, no AWS, Docker, K…

Which headless CMS do you prefer?

Re: Ask HN: If you could have your tech team know one new thing

#5

Post by solardev »

patatino wrote: post #4
solardev wrote: post #3

Next.js. In 20 years of web dev, this is the single technology that's made me the happiest. It's the reason I chose to specialize in the FE and gave up the backend. Coupled with a headless CMS (GraphQL is nice but not mandatory), this makes React a dream to work with, the pages super fast, the routing super simple, and the dev ex super fun. One push to Vercel and you have a fully functional website, no AWS, Docker, K…

Which headless CMS do you prefer?

It depends on your needs, like whether it has to be self hosted, vendor supported, open source, file vs DB backend, enterprise support, easy to use, etc.

We evaluated about 10 or 15 of them and ended up choosing DatoCMS, a small startup with wonderful features and a terrific editing UI and rich plug in system. Their devs were also very responsive. A bunch of small QoL features like built in imgix support and graphql and such sealed the deal for us.

GraphCMS was a close second, with a very strong data model and solid API, but our editors (marketers, not coders) preferred Dato.

There are a lot of good choices out there. The only one we had a bad experience with was the industry leader, Contentful. They were both outrageously expensive (which wasn't the case when they first started) and also didn't really want us as a customer. They wouldn't even seriously meet with us without a NDA.

Re: Ask HN: If you could have your tech team know one new thing

#8

Post by zemariagp »

solardev wrote: post #3

Next.js. In 20 years of web dev, this is the single technology that's made me the happiest. It's the reason I chose to specialize in the FE and gave up the backend. Coupled with a headless CMS (GraphQL is nice but not mandatory), this makes React a dream to work with, the pages super fast, the routing super simple, and the dev ex super fun. One push to Vercel and you have a fully functional website, no AWS, Docker, K…

Yes, it’s a central part of our stack so I guess this one I can’t talk about, thanks anyway!
Post reply on HN