A Web development stack or tech stack consists of a set of web frameworks, programming languages, servers, and databases that when combined help in producing seamless, fully-fledged web applications. Choosing the right stack is crucial because this determines the speed, security, scalability, and overall efficiency of your app.
Here are the best and most popular tech stacks:
1. MERN STACK
This stack consists of:
- MongoDB: NoSQL database
- ExpressJs: A nodeJs backend framework
- React: A frontend Javascript library
- NodeJs: Javascript runtime-environment
2. MEAN STACK
This stack is quite similar to MERN except that it uses Angular instead of React.
Technologies:
- MongoDB: NoSQL database;
- ExpressJs: A nodeJs backend framework
- Angular: A frontend Javascript library
- NodeJs: Javascript runtime-environment
3. LAMP STACK
- Linux: Open-source operating system
- Apache: Free and open source HTTP web server
- MySQL: Relational database Management System
- PHP: Backend language
4. SERN STACK
- SQL: Language of relational databases
- ExpressJs
- React
- NodeJs
5. Vue.js STACK
- Vuejs: A frontend javascript framework
- NodeJs
- MongoDB
- ExpressJs
6. SERVERLESS STACK
- AWS lambda: According to Amazon, is an event-driven serverless computing platform provided by Amazon
- API Gateway: As per Nginx, it receives and directs client API requests, effectively routing them to the relevant Microservice using techniques such as request routing, composition, and protocol translation.
- DynamoDB: NoSQL database by Amazon designed to run high performance applications at any scale
- React: Frontend library
7. ASP.NET STACK
- ASP.Net: Microsoft framework for building web apps with .NET and C#
- C#: programming language
- SQL Server: Relational database
8. JAVA STACK
- Java: Programming language
- Spring boot: Java framework
- MySQL/PostgreSQL: Relational Databases
9.Ruby on Rails
- Ruby: programming language
- Rails: Ruby Framework
- SQLite: C library that has a server and database
10. JAMstack
- Javascript: programming language
- API: Application Programming Interface
- Markup: Generated by static site generators like Jekyll, Gatsby, etc
In conclusion
The choice of a tech stack really boils down to what you want to achieve. Some of the factors to consider are scalability, security, cost and availability of integration tools, and ease of solving a problem.
Latest comments (37)
If you're looking for the best web development stacks, it really depends on your project! MERN (MongoDB, Express, React, Node) is great for full-stack JavaScript, while Django + PostgreSQL works well for Python lovers. By the way, if you're into cybersecurity, check out CypherCon—a top hacker conference!
Where is Python Stack???
Stack overflow 😂
Fastapi, MySql, React?
where is laravel ?
Why these are "10 best"?
This .NET stack graph is 10+ years old. Meanwhile there has come all popular frontend frameworks (react, vue, angular, svelte...) and also on C# side Blazor, Razor Pages, ASP.NET WebAPI etc.
Also, among many more Django is not mentioned...
For the stacks, how will everything be connected together for JAMs, Ror stack is very simple and straightforward
Good work, but when do you know when you are expected to use a microservice architecture? I am tired of monolith approach 😭
Missing the best stack ever
TALL stack
Tailwind Alpine Laravel Livewire
Vue.js is moving from Webpack to Vite.
Also Nuxt (not to be confused with Next.js) deserves to be mentioned here as it allows to incorporate both frontend and backend into one codebase with its own runtime server (Nitro).