Ask HN: What's the fastest and simplest way to prototype a web app in 2023?

• firestarter

  5 28 6.2 TypeScript

  A starter kit for quickly building your next app. Side project or startup! (by mcapodici)

My open source project is mostly aimed at this. Happy to help out early adopters (find me on twitter @mcapodici)

https://github.com/mcapodici/firestarter

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2. Check: I started using github spaces developing this

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4. Uses Firebase, trading off open sourceness for convenience

• litestack

  16 898 9.0 Ruby

Rails is the way to go. The productivity of the Ruby language is insane. It's battle tested for decades and you can easily scale your prototype.

If you want a simple app served on a single host you can try LiteStack [0] so you don't need a Redis/Postgres/Sidekiq instance, just SQLite.

Laravel is also good if you like PHP language.

[0] https://github.com/oldmoe/litestack

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io featured

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

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