natural-selection VS Papercups

Maybe https://github.com/frontaid/natural-selection can give you some pointers. It is a blueprint of a possible CSS file structure that applies globally. This covers at least 1. and 2. of your example.

[1] https://github.com/frontaid/natural-selection

PS: If you want to get a jump start for the global styling of your projects, you might want to have a look at https://github.com/frontaid/natural-selection

I rarely use any of the popular CSS frameworks. Unless you are making a small(ish) website where the styling is not important, it is actually more work to change an existing frameworks than to just use CSS yourself.

But what I do use sometimes is a CSS reset like https://github.com/necolas/normalize.css

And what I also use is this CSS boilerplate: https://github.com/frontaid/natural-selection (Disclaimer: I created it because I wanted to avoid the repetitive work of writing out all the selectors).

I'm working on a CSS framework without any styling (!). It is a collection of selectors and meant to be used as a clean CSS boilerplate. Thus it can jump start your your next project or design system.

https://github.com/frontaid/natural-selection

The best language for the task at hand, when presented with time constraints, is the one that you already know well. OP said in the article that they authored Papercups [1]. Adopting Elixir for a websocket-push service makes a lot of sense, then. However, why don't you learn Elixir, some OTP, and then reconsider that question? You could be missing out.

[1] https://github.com/papercups-io/papercups

https://github.com/papercups-io/papercups - 5.2k stars, uses Phoenix 1.6

Papercups

Shameless plug here if anyone is interested in an open source live chat tool check out https://github.com/papercups-io/papercups

Phoneix - Elixir

We're a live message tool and it is basically what Elixir is built for https://github.com/papercups-io/papercups.

The Elixir community has been great and incredibly friendly. I originally was worried about the size of the community but that hasn't been an issue the community has been super helpful. I also think the annual stackoverflow usage surveys are very misleading because most of the community's questions get asked in ElixirForum and not on Stackoverflow.

Phoneix is the web framework of Elixir which is very similar to Rails but minus a lot of the magic has been very helpful for our productivity as well.

If I had to built another service that is websocket heavy I would definitely use Elixir. Even if it was a standard crud app I would still most likely choose Elixir.