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What's your current tech stack for web development?

Arafat on January 14, 2023

A tech stack in web development refers to the combination of technologies and programming languages used to create and maintain an excellent web ap...

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Jon Randy 🎖️ • Jan 15 '23 • Edited

Depends what you classify as 'web' development - my current role has me using HTML, JS, and CSS on a daily basis - but the work does not involve the internet, or a traditional web browser...

The tech stack is:

Custom game engine (written in C++) with a Lua interface into its APIs
Embedded Chrome framework with some custom extensions to talk to the Lua interface (although we're looking to maybe move to Coherent Gameface)
AngularJS (yes, the really old one)
VueJS
Lots custom JS for dealing with events and data streams from the game engine
All hand-coded CSS

Arafat • Jan 15 '23

Nice👌

Masashi • Jan 15 '23 • Edited

Actually it depends on the project. I often return to "ExpressJS, TailwindCSS and EJS with MongoDB (mongoose as a driver)"
after considering other choices. The last project I was doing, was supposed to be done with NextJS, so if you have any such restrictions your stack will change.

Arafat • Jan 15 '23

Yea, I agree, btw great stack!!👌. I would say prisma would be better instead of mongoose as It generates also types for you.

Masashi • Jan 15 '23

Oh, I did not know about Prisma, thanks. I will try it out in one of my next projects. (However, I don't use Typescript)

Clavin June • Jan 15 '23

currently learning svelte & grpc gateway! It looks like I will pick tailwind also 👀

Arafat • Jan 15 '23

Yes, Tailwind will be a good add to the stack👌

Maty • Jan 15 '23

I am thinking about adding Tailwind to my Svelte stack also 👀

Clavin June • Jan 16 '23

@m4ty are you using any UI component on svelte?

Maty • Jan 16 '23

I’ve used Carbon Components and Skeleton. Carbon components are more for “functional apps, that don’t look so good” and Skeleton is suitable for modern looking websites.

Clavin June • Jan 16 '23

thank you for the reference, will look into that 👍

Arnaud Dagnelies • Jan 16 '23 • Edited

For complex stuff: Java Spring Boot Backend + Vue3 Typescript Frontend
For simple stuff: Cloudflare Workers Backend + Vue3 Typescript Frontend
DB and UI Lib depends on project mostly.
Sometimes a bit of Python for local tooling scripts.

Arafat • Jan 16 '23

Nice stack, looks like you love to use multiple programming languages 😉 in your stack.👍

pilcrowOnPaper • Jan 15 '23

Always TypeScript, Tailwind for styling, and PostgreSQL for the database, and Prisma as the ORM. I usually host my site on Vercel, but I also use Railway.

For static sites and somewhat interactive sites I use Astro. It’s such a joy to use. For more interactive sites I use SvelteKit.

Solid and Svelte are my framework of choice.