Best Technology for writing modern Web Applications

For me, the best combination of technologies to create any web application is:

Rails ( with its gem ecosystem) + Redis + PostgreSQL + StimulusJs + TailwindCSS.

No need more.

• Rails has everything you need https://rubyonrails.org/everything-you-need/

• Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache, and message broker.

• PostgreSQL is the World's Most Advanced Open Source Relational Database

• StimulusJs a modest JavaScript framework for the HTML you already have.

• Tailwind CSS a utility-first CSS framework for rapidly building custom designs.

What is yours?

Comments

[Joe Sweeney]

For a full-stack web app, my favorite has come to be:

• Laravel
• MySQL
• TailwindCSS
• MithrilJS (for sprinkles of dynamic behavior)
• ParcelJS (bundling)

I've bounced around but this has always been the most productive stack for me.

[Yatit]

For web + mobile, Ionic / Angular with GraphQL backend. For pure web, React + Typescript with @material-ui and styled-components, also with GraphQL backend. For content-driven static site or blog, Gatsby.js with styled-components, possibly also Tailwind.css or theme-ui.

[Agorakit]

Laravel + Bootstrap + Unpoly JS

Easy to learn, to host, to maintain.

[John Peters]

Angular and Material frontend, Asp. Net Core backend, EF, TSQL, SQL server.. But have worked with Mongodb and Rabbit Mq. NPM and GitHub repos for everything else. It's a big world out there.

Love React and Vue but don't use it at all.

Typescript and VSCode too.

[Alessandro]

We use rails with stimulus (vue when things gets complicated), mysql and bootstrap. Old classic.

[Isaac Hagoel]

It really depends on the requirements of the project I would say...

[Davide Santangelo]

yes but in general what do you use for a standard back/front web application ?

[Isaac Hagoel]

At work i've mostly used Java (with and without Spring), postgres, memcached, redis and React. For side project I've used all kind of stuff. Not sure what a general web application is I guess. If I just need a simple site maybe I would just use WordPress or even a platform like Wix and won't bother implementing it myself.

[Alexandre Jacques]

I'm doing Django + Postgres + Redis + Quasar for some of my projects. Opted for Django because I prefer Python over Ruby and Quasar as it has ready-to-go components (faster to deliver, in my case).