Ask HN: What's the stack for your "home-cooked meal" apps?

• whattocook

  2 3 7.7 Java

  Get a recipe to cook today, based on the ingredients you have at home.

I literally made one to scratch my itch with home cooked meals: https://www.kassner.com.br/en/2023/09/21/what-to-cook-launch...

Honestly, I don’t have “a stack”, if I’m trying to learn a new thing I’ll use that to build a new project, or if I don’t I’ll default to the most suitable option.

i.e.: What to Cook? was built in Java because I needed a refresher, otherwise I’d likely use PHP/Symfony because I could finish it quickly. If the project is non-web/fullstack, I’d default to Go. If im building something that will use React, I’d default to NodeJS+Express.

If you’re curious, i have a few write ups in the projects section of my blog

• tauri

  469 77,154 9.8 Rust

  Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.

  

- Desktop/Mobile wrapping: [Tauri](https://tauri.app)

I know building native apps with web technologies is a bit lame since it's a glorified web view on native devices and thus is somewhat limited, but as a web developer this allows me to play in those worlds a bit more.

I've tried to learn Swift/Kotlin but haven't been able to get as far as I have with JavaScript yet.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• compass

  1 0 8.2 JavaScript

  A simple compass and map (by radioxeth)

• lines.love

  2 12 8.8 Lua

  An editor for plain text where you can also seamlessly insert line drawings

I tend to prefer editors to IDEs. Lua is a simple enough language and my codebases have been small enough that my usual Vim sufficed at the start for apps like http://akkartik.name/lines.html back in May 2022. Over time I figured out how to do live editing, and lately I build my apps 95% in https://git.sr.ht/~akkartik/driver.love. I find it to be quite a nice experience, particularly with 2 monitors. I open the app I'm working on in one monitor while running driver.love full screen in the other to make changes to it.

Carousel has a whole new use case: building simple scripts right on my phone or tablet. Nothing else can do that as simply, I think. It's cross-platform but that's an experimental property I'm hoping to carry forward to other apps. The use case here is purely for mobile devices.

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