Ask HN: Which stack is as boring (good boring) and cheap in 2023 as PHP?

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  • aws-gocljs

    fullstack web should be easy

  • aws, go, and clojurescript.

    go is notoriously boring.

    the reagent api for clojurescript hasn’t changed in a decade, though recent things like shadow-cljs do improve qol.

    aws releases services with 2 in their name instead of changing existing ones. the old boring service will plod along forever.

    aws apigateway v2 is much better, but i have many deployed projects i will never migrate because they are fine on v1.

    i do it like this: https://github.com/nathants/aws-gocljs

  • itty-router

    A little router.

  • Instead of Next and it's bloat, you should try Svelte, a barebones Svelte (not SvelteKit) app feels like a breeze to scaffold and deploy through Netlify or Vercel with nearly 0 configuration. The same can be said about SvelteKit, though you can just get away by using a minimal router like Itty (https://github.com/kwhitley/itty-router) with barebones Svelte (just run npx create-vite, and follow the interactive scaffold process).

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