As a long time software developer who hasn't done full stack in awhile (since 2013), what's everyone's go to web hosting stack today? Wanted to quickly put together a simple website with react/node.
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#2React/node is what I use for side projects.
React is pretty annoying to set up yourself since it needs to be compiled, so use https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app to spin up quickly or just host vanilla html/css/js and slowly transition to react as you please.
Alternatively, I think the React core code can be downloaded on the client via a cdn.
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#3I've been looking into JAMstack...static site generators, github pages, continuous integration, aws lambdas, etc. Makes a lot of sense.
On the other hand, I just got a vps and am planning on learning Golang ;-)
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#4I am using plain crystal to make an api server with a spa in vanilla js and cant be happier with my choices. Dropping all frameworks and stacks has me far more productive and a better programmer. My db is postgres and i am hoping to use nuster as load balancer/cache on digital ocean droplets
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#5I use Meteor everyday and its actually pretty cool for side projects. But, then I keep thinking subconsciously if Meteor is dead!
Frankly, it wouldn't really matter if it is dead as the current version seems to mature enough for my needs in the foreseeable future. But then ... there is kind of on an ego boost that you get while using something trendy!
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#6Professionally and for personal projects I go with Elixir. Having 99% transparent parallelization of any task is irreplaceable in our multi-core CPU era (especially having in mind that CPUs seem to have more and more cores lately -- see AMD). Functional programming improves the way you reason about your tasks as well.
Having a simple language living inside a 30-year old runtime and being able to reach for pretty advanced tools if you need them, is heaven. Not everything is ideal though; there are still holes to be filled in the ecosystem.
If you do something more serious and need compiler help as much as possible, I'd say go for OCaml. Its multi-core parallelism story is still not good but there are ways around that. I hear from some people Idris is good as well.
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#7ASP.NET MVC Core
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#8Nodejs for any realtime stack or where websockets need to be used. If it's a basic crud app django is also a solid choice. For frontend I generally go with Vue these days if making an SPA or any dynamic functionality, it's just very easy to work with. For any backend microservice python works quite well, or even Go if performance is needed. Rabbitmq to join it all together. Redis for any fast access storage. Front all of this with Nginx and database is dependent on the usecase.
To run all of it i use docker compose in both prod and dev.
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#9Backend: Django w/ Django Rest Framework
Frontend: Vue
Prefer Django, because it has so many things built in (authentication, other protections to build things super fast and not worry), many people call it magic but if you read the code, it's very easy to follow. [1] & [2] sites helped me a lot to remove the "magic" as well.
Prefer Vue because it is strongly opinionated, unlike other JS frameworks (i.e. React). Again, learning Vue allowed me to build things super fast and other having to worry about things like Gulp, Webpack and many more things that I don't understand in the JS community. Personally for me the JS community moves too fast for my liking and Vue has been a god send, especially with the help of Vue Cli [3]
Database of choice: PostgreSQL, because it is used by several developers rather than MySQL when building anything with Django.
Building realtime: I use a external service like Pusher or Pubnub, because they have generous free plans to get you up and running. But there is Django Channels if you don't want external dependency.
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#10Backend: Django w/ Django Rest Framework Frontend: Vue Prefer Django, because it has so many things built in (authentication, other protections to build things super fast and not worry), many people call it magic but if you read the code, it's very easy to follow. [1] & [2] sites helped me a lot to remove the "magic" as well. Prefer Vue because it is strongly opinionated, unlike other JS frameworks (i.e. React). Agai…
Seconded on Django. It's excellent, especially if you get it out of the box with cookiecutter-django and DRF ( rest framework )
Plus, with things like Zappa it's easy to go entirely serverless
Django + NewRelic for APM is plain magic
EDIT: Oh, and Celery if your use case needs it. Brillant