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If you already have some sort of foundation in programming, use AI and some great abstractions/frameworks to get things done even faster. For example, instead of creating everything from the ground up (and probably suffering on little things along the way) you can skip repeating yourself a ton of times by using Wasp, which is a great React/Node full-stack framework that takes care of managing the boilerplate side of programming for you. 🤯
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Aider: AI pair programming in your terminal
Aider is one of my favorite AI agents, especially because it can work with existing codebases. We've seen a lot of good results from folks who used it with Wasp (https://github.com/wasp-lang/wasp) - a full-stack web framework I'm working on.
A "marketingy" demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXunbNBpgZg&ab_channel=Wasp
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Web frameworks we are most excited for in 2024
For those who want the tool to have full control over their stack simply and easily, look no further! Wasp is an opinionated full-stack framework that leverages its compiler for a fast and easy way to create a database, backend, and frontend for your app. It uses React, Node.js, and Prisma, which are some of the most well-known tools that full-stack web developers are using.
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🐱Product Hunt has become pay-to-win 💰, but you should still use it to launch your product 🚀
Although our main product is Wasp, a full-stack framework on top of React & Node.js, here’s what we launched so far:
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Show HN: Open SaaS – An open-source alternative to paid boilerplate starters
Yes, there is already a (good) SaaS template for Ruby on Rails called Bullet Train (https://bullettrain.co), so it might be helpful to distinguish yours as the JS-oriented option.
Your in good company, though, as your MVC framework of choice states that it is a "Rails-like" framework (https://wasp-lang.dev).
- Pandoc
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🏞️5 beautiful open-source web apps to learn from and get inspired 🙇♀️💡
CoverLetterGPT is made with React, Node.js, and Prisma, powered by the Wasp framework, which takes care of all the plumbing and removes a ton of boilerplate. The best part is you can deploy your app for free when you’re ready by running a single CLI command: wasp deploy.
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🥇The Best Web Framework Doesn't Exist 🚫
For example, according to the StateOfJS survey of 2022 (we're still waiting for 2023 results to roll in), there were 5 Front-end Frameworks with good retention in 2018; there were 11 in 2022. That’s a 120% increase in a matter of 4 years, and that’s not even taking into account the hot meta-frameworks like NextJS, Wasp, SvelteKit, or Astro!
On the flip side, if you’re a beginner or Junior dev, once you have the basics of HTML, CSS, and JS under your belt, it doesn’t really matter what framework you learn. I personally started learning backend development with PHP, but then later switched to frontend in Angular. In my second subsequent role I used React, and now I work with Wasp (a full-stack framework built on top of React and Node.js) to develop my side project, https://reflectdaily.app/. Developers never stop learning, so it’s kind of a non-argument to deride any specific framework — unless it really sucks, but then no one will continue to use it anyway.
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XML is better than YAML
I don‘t understand why HOCON (https://github.com/lightbend/config/blob/main/HOCON.md) isn‘t used more often (at least for configuration use cases). It‘s a superset of JSON, has comments, multiline strings, optional quotes, replacement syntax. We use it at many places, and it‘s as nice at it can get.
This is one of the few HN discussions where I feel a little bit qualified to give an opinion :)
Two years ago I started a small data quality checker software where users could define their alerts, frequencies,.. all in config files instead of modifying code.
I started with JSON as config format, but then realised comments are necessary to guide users in defining alerts. I moved to YAML, but after some "indentation incodents" started using HOCON conf [0] and never looked back. I don't see any reason for choosing YAML over one of JSON or HOCON, except being forced to. Features such as inheritance and text block support which were essential for me are nicely supported in HOCON.
- Toml-bench – Which toml package to use in Python?
- slf4j or System.Logger?
- TOML: Tom's Obvious Minimal Language
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Ron: Rusty Object Notation
HOCON is a great human-readable alternative to JSON. It's a superset of JSON with lots of cool features that make it both more readable and easier to use.
Here's a rundown of HOCON's main features: https://github.com/lightbend/config#features-of-hocon
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Spring and scala
For reading configuration files, I would probably use this: https://github.com/lightbend/config instead of Spring.
"Typesafe Config" is the library generally used to read configuration files in HOCON format, which this library introduced. It's commonly used in essentially OOP/imperative Scala contexts, including Akka and its ecosystem.
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Make systemd better for Podman with Quadlet
Interesting!
For my own servers I use an internal tool that integrates apps with systemd. You point it at the output of your build system and a config file, and it produces a deb that contains systemd unit files and which registers/starts the server on install/reboot/upgrade, as a regular debian package would. Then it uploads it to the server via sftp and installs it using apt, so dependencies are resolved. As part of the build process it can download and bundle language runtimes (I use it with a JVM), it scans native binaries to find packages that the app should depend on, and you can define your config including package metadata like dependencies and systemd units using the HOCON language [1].
Upshot is you can go from a Gradle or Maven build to a running server with a few lines of config. Oh and it can build debs from any OS, so you can push from macOS and Windows too. If your server needs to depend on e.g. Postgres, you just add that dependency in your config and it'll be up and running after the push.
It also has features to turn on DynamicUser and other sandboxing features. I think I'll experiment with socket activation next, and then bundled BorgBackup.
Net/net it's pretty nice. I haven't tried with containers because many language ecosystems don't seem to really need them for many use cases. If your build tool knows how to download your language runtime and bundle it sans container by just setting up paths correctly, then going without means you can rely on your Linux distribution to keep things up to date with security patches in the background, it means networking works as you'd expect (no accidentally opened firewall ports!) and so on. SystemD knows how to configure resource isolation/cgroups and kernel sandboxing, so if you need those you can just write that into your build config and it's done. Or not, as you wish.
With a deployment tool to automate builds/pushes, systemd to supervise processes and a big beefy dedicated machine to let you scale up, I wonder how much value the container part is really still providing if you don't need the full functionality of Kubernetes.
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Introducing JXC: An extensible, expressive data language. It's a drop-in replacement for JSON and supports type annotations, numeric suffixes, base64 strings, and more!
Other similar standards: TOML, HOCON
What are some alternatives?
cfg4j - Modern configuration library for distributed apps written in Java.
owner - Get rid of the boilerplate code in properties based configuration.
dotenv - Loads environment variables from .env for nodejs projects.
dotenv - A twelve-factor configuration (12factor.net/config) library for Java 8+
reflex - 🕸️ Web apps in pure Python 🐍
Configur8 - Nano-library which provides the ability to define typesafe (!) configuration templates for applications.
centraldogma - Highly-available version-controlled service configuration repository based on Git, ZooKeeper and HTTP/2
redwood - The App Framework for Startups
json5 - JSON5 — JSON for Humans
gura - Gura configuration language
Mobile-First-RWD - An example of a mobile-first responsive web design
dhall-lang - Maintainable configuration files