Ask HN: Easiest and cheapest full-stack frameworks that you love?

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  • create-t3-app

    The best way to start a full-stack, typesafe Next.js app

    This: https://create.t3.gg/

    having typesafety out of the box between backend and frontend is a game changer.. not having to do fetches manually and your api autocompleting is awesome.

  • fastify

    Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js

    Fastify https://www.fastify.io simple, and modular NodeJS framework. I don't consider a framework simple once they use a bundler like Webpack, Babel, Rollup, etc.

  • Appwrite

    Appwrite - The open-source backend cloud platform. The open-source backend cloud platform for developing Web, Mobile, and Flutter applications. You can set up your backend faster with real-time APIs for authentication, databases, file storage, cloud functions, and much more!

  • meteor-mysql

    Reactive MySQL for Meteor

    There is also a MySQL integration with Meteor.

    I'm the defacto maintainer of this package and the Node.js package mysql-live-select.

    These implement pub/sub and reactive queries using the MySQL binary log as the event source:

    https://github.com/vlasky/meteor-mysql

    https://github.com/vlasky/mysql-live-select

  • mysql-live-select

    NPM Package to provide events on updated MySQL SELECT result sets (by vlasky)

    There is also a MySQL integration with Meteor.

    I'm the defacto maintainer of this package and the Node.js package mysql-live-select.

    These implement pub/sub and reactive queries using the MySQL binary log as the event source:

    https://github.com/vlasky/meteor-mysql

    https://github.com/vlasky/mysql-live-select

  • drogon

    Drogon: A C++14/17/20 based HTTP web application framework running on Linux/macOS/Unix/Windows

    talking about C++, there are drogon framework: https://github.com/drogonframework/drogon

    not bells and whistles like on Wt as there are no integrated widgets. But have c++ based template (for HTML) engine and other integrated parts what you expect from framework (routing, controllers, db, authentication handling and so on).

    and boasts high performance design

  • create-jd-app

    The quickest and most efficient way to start new full stack, type safed Solid web app

    https://github.com/OrJDev/create-jd-app

    This is like t3 but uses Solid.js, which is magnitude simpler and faster than React.

  • sdoc

    Standalone sdoc generator

    Rails still holds the top spot in getting things out the door in the shortest amount of time. So many example projects and tons of amazing libraries that are available. They absolutely have the best developer docs in the industry as far as I'm concerned.

    https://guides.rubyonrails.org/

    https://api.rubyonrails.org/

    Phoenix/Liveview is a close second. I would personally use Phoenix/Liveview at this point because since I know that stack pretty well, but it is definitely not as easy as Rails to learn. However, once past the learning phase I think there's distinct advantages especially with Liveview.

    Fly.io has a free hosting tier currently. You can also get some free servers through Oracle Cloud.

  • Amplication

    Amplication: open-source Node.js backend code generator. An open-source platform that helps developers build backends without spending time on boilerplate & repetitive coding. Including production-ready GraphQL & REST APIs, DB schema, DTOs, filtering, pagination, RBAC, & more.

  • Deployer

    The PHP deployment tool with support for popular frameworks out of the box

    Is there an equivalent for deployer in .NET world?

    https://deployer.org/

  • meteor-template

    I do this with Meteor for many years.

    This is the template I use to start https://github.com/quavedev/meteor-template

    For example, I built https://codeftw.dev (https://en.codefte.dev in English) and https://www.lemeno.io/nerds in recent years.

    Meteor built-in integration with MongoDB and real-time data system makes everything very fast to be implemented.

    Disclaimer: I'm the former CEO of Meteor (www.meteor.com)

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