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Ask HN: Best tech stack in 2024 to build a fast dashboard web app?

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Ask HN: Best tech stack in 2024 to build a fast dashboard web app?

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Post by imnotreallynew »

I have a new project that needs a landing page, a signup flow, and a dashboard section displaying some data from a database.

I highly prefer simple, blazing fast websites like Hacker News and Craigslist that load near instantly.

I’ve got a little experience with Rails, React, Java/Kotlin (Android), and node/express.

Is there a particular tech stack that would be suitable for building something where load speed is a priority? I am more than happy to learn a new stack for this project. Thank you!

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Post by hdlothia »

Cloudflare edge backends are supposedly really fast. Stuff like kv, durable objects, hono.js mixed with your frontend framework of choice.

But I feel like for 10 or so pages it won't really matter what you choose.As long as your queries are good you should be fine.

Edited to add links:

https://hono.dev/

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-workers-serverless-we...

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Post by sgt »

imnotreallynew wrote: post #3
sgt wrote: post #2

Just try Django.

Isn’t python/django quite slow?

Not really. With caching it becomes quite fast. If you need extreme speed, look into a small go service or similar, but for most cases Django will be fast enough.
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