Matt Eland

Posted on Dec 29, 2020

What Tech Stacks are Folks Using for New Projects?

#discuss #startup

I'm doing a bit of research for an upcoming article and potential content for a book down the road and I'm wondering what types of tech stacks people are looking at when starting a new project.

Example tech stacks would include:

MEAN / MERN / MEVN
.NET 5 Back End / Vue.js Front End / SQL Server Database
PHP / MariaDB

I'm also curious what considerations you make when choosing a tech stack, though I understand for the vast majority of organizations a legacy tech stack is already in place.

I'm curious to see the variety of backgrounds you all have on this one as well as which are the most popular, so please comment and upvote other comments that represent your stacks well.

Latest comments (22)

Pini Cheyni • Dec 31 '20

For side project: PM2+NodeJS,NestJS + Angular10, MySql/sqlite,Redis.
For work: AWS, Redis, nodeJS Angular10.

pharmokan • Dec 31 '20 • Edited

NEAT STACK

NETLIFY
ELEVENTY
ALPINEJS
TAILWIND CSS

neat-starter.netlify.app/

Alexis Rochon • Sep 13 '21

I really want to try this one. It looks so lightweight, so simple, so efficient.

Margo McCabe • Dec 30 '20

A lot of folks are using HarperDB for new projects as well, it might be worth checking out! (HERN is the new MERN, but maybe I'm slightly biased 🙂)

Mischa Spiegelmock • Dec 30 '20

This is some of what I've been using for Python/React serverless projects along with starter kits: dev.to/cybermischa/python-2020-mod...

Raman Sharma • Dec 30 '20

No code tools like Bubble. Game changer.

Vaibhav Arora • Dec 30 '20

React

Matt Eland • Dec 30 '20

Any server or database or just react front end?

Vaibhav Arora • Dec 30 '20

react for front end.
i don't get chance to write backend code, but if I get the chance, it will be nodejs

Because I have spent maximum of my career in JavaScript.

guledali • Dec 30 '20 • Edited

For any hobby & passion project most important tool I use is Ruby on Rails, it empowers the solo developer and the framework include so much of the box while at the same time being very opinionated which is good for beginners. I tell people once you understand the basics of rails, it's absolutely a magnificent framework but yeah let's get started here.

Tech-Stack) Ruby on Rails, in fact I use jumpstartrails.com/
CSS-framework) Tailwind UI & Tailwind CSS
CI) TravisCI or Github Actions
CD) Heroku easy to setup with rails
Database) Pg, Postgres most of the time I write ActiveRecord
Testing) Minitest and Fixtures build into rails
Design-Tool) Refactoring UI, wireframe.cc, balsamiq & figma
IDE) RubyMine + VIM, vscode sucks with Ruby

Services:

file-upload), ActiveStorage AWS S3
email), ActionMailer SendGrid
background-job) ActiveJob Sidekiq Heroku Redis, I don't use this feature often only when I'm sending emails like confirmation emails and reset password. Rails has like deliver.now and deliver.later method. Particularly deliver.later is putting the job in a que which is good for the server and this why I think rails is so powerful at the end of the day, even a novice developer like me can put out a production ready web application without knowing that much.

JavaScript framework
No! I don't use any JavaScript framework at all for my hobbies and pet projects but,
I do like StimulusJS 2.0 framework very easy to use in small projects it gives me a lot of throwback to the jQuery days, oh much simpler times.

André Rodrigues Melo • Dec 30 '20

"oh much simpler times". I empathize a lot with that!

Gregor Dzierzon • Dec 30 '20

Hi Matt,

This is a great question. I've actually thought a lot about this topic. I will dabble with several variations of this just because I love learning, but here is my go-to response if I am starting an actual dev project.

.NET 5 / ASP.NET MVC with vanilla JavaScript / SQL Server
or
.NET 5 / Angular / SQL Server

I've used Mongo on a couple of enterprise projects, but we chose mongo specifically because the data was not structured. Mongo would not be my go-to default.