Ask HN: Freelance website builders/maintainers, what's in your 2024 toolkit?

• joystick

  49 194 9.7 JavaScript

  A full-stack JavaScript framework for building stable, easy-to-maintain apps and websites.

  

• sanity

  93 4,899 10.0 TypeScript

  Sanity Studio – Rapidly configure content workspaces powered by structured content

  

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  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.

  

• astro

  503 42,342 10.0 TypeScript

  The web framework for content-driven websites. ⭐️ Star to support our work!

  

Database: turso [7] or neon postgres [8] with (drizzle orm) or cloudflare durable objects

1. https://github.com/withastro/astro

• neon

  123 12,279 9.9 Rust

  Neon: Serverless Postgres. We separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage.

  

8. https://neon.tech/As you might know not one tool fits all, I still have strong preferences for the following. It helps me get going faster and get things done right first time and helps in ease of maintenance.

Language: Typescript.

• qwik

  132 20,194 9.9 TypeScript

  Instant-loading web apps, without effort

  

• lucia

  51 7,575 9.6 TypeScript

  Authentication, simple and clean

  

• daisyui

  248 30,810 9.8 Svelte

  🌼 🌼 🌼 🌼 🌼  The most popular, free and open-source Tailwind CSS component library

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• elementor

  163 6,391 9.9 JavaScript

  The most advanced frontend drag & drop page builder. Create high-end, pixel perfect websites at record speeds. Any theme, any page, any design.

  

• payload

  160 19,608 9.9 TypeScript

  The best way to build a modern backend + admin UI. No black magic, all TypeScript, and fully open-source, Payload is both an app framework and a headless CMS.

  

My most recent project launched in January. NextJS 14 client integrated with PayloadCMS (http://payloadcms.com) for the back-end. I love both technologies in theory, but they're both going through a renaissance period and "bleeding edge" doesn't even begin to describe it.

If I'm just building a client app, create-react-app is still my go to.

Before now, I'd been building on WordPress for 10+ years for anything client-administered. Planning on using Payload from here on out.

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