Ask HN: Solo Dev Stack of 2022?

• htmx

  565 32,443 9.6 JavaScript

  </> htmx - high power tools for HTML

  

i have a dog in this fight, but I would recommend whatever back-end you are most comfortable with that addresses the domain you are dealing with best + https://htmx.org

you basically have HTML++, very gentle learning curve, you can leverage your back-end (which is where you are going to add the most value) and just get on with it without a huge investment in front end architecture

i am the creator of htmx

• turbo-ios

  15 816 7.8 Swift

  iOS framework for making Turbo native apps

  

Ruby on Rails, Hotwire, Postgres, Redis

Does anyone have experience with https://github.com/hotwired/turbo-ios or https://github.com/hotwired/turbo-android ?

• 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.

  

• turbo-android

  6 397 8.5 Kotlin

  Android framework for making Turbo native apps

  

Ruby on Rails, Hotwire, Postgres, Redis

Does anyone have experience with https://github.com/hotwired/turbo-ios or https://github.com/hotwired/turbo-android ?

• daisyui

  248 30,632 9.8 Svelte

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

Thanks for the shout out David!

Not surprisingly, this is also the stack I'd recommend for a solo developer, though I will also sprinkle in React as it makes sense (not as an SPA / decoupled app, but instead embedded in Django as I describe in the JS guides).

Also, I'm pretty agnostic on CSS. Tailwind is nice but I'd use it with a UIkit (Pegasus uses https://daisyui.com/) or TailwindUI. I also think Bootstrap, Material and Bulma are totally fine options if you aren't interested in laying out everything with your own flexes and grids.

• inertia

  121 5,719 7.7 PHP

  Inertia.js lets you quickly build modern single-page React, Vue and Svelte apps using classic server-side routing and controllers.

  

I was away from PHP for years but in my search for a stack that would just let me get things done as fast as possible I found InertiaJs https://inertiajs.com/

It lets me use vue js as laravel views and pass data around without the need of an API. This just makes development super fast.

I went even further and used laravel jetstream, that comes with inertia js and with Auth and other useful stuff already solved

• graphile-engine

  6 753 6.2 JavaScript

  Monorepo home of graphile-build, graphile-build-pg, graphile-utils, postgraphile-core and graphql-parse-resolve-info. Build a high-performance easily-extensible GraphQL schema by combining plugins!

  

I've been enjoying developing on top of PostGraphile. https://www.graphile.org/

Good starter: https://github.com/graphile/starter

I can add a column the the db, and my frontend gets that autimagically (in dev mode, it generates a graphql schema out of the db, and from that it creates composables for my frontend wiht graphql-codegen). On the frontend I use Vue 3, the starter is build with nextjs/react.

• starter

  9 1,702 5.8 TypeScript

  Opinionated SaaS quick-start with pre-built user account and organization system for full-stack application development in React, Node.js, GraphQL and PostgreSQL. Powered by PostGraphile, TypeScript, Apollo Client, Graphile Worker, Graphile Migrate, GraphQL Code Generator, Ant Design and Next.js

  

I've been enjoying developing on top of PostGraphile. https://www.graphile.org/

Good starter: https://github.com/graphile/starter

I can add a column the the db, and my frontend gets that autimagically (in dev mode, it generates a graphql schema out of the db, and from that it creates composables for my frontend wiht graphql-codegen). On the frontend I use Vue 3, the starter is build with nextjs/react.

• 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.

  

• SvelteKit

  611 17,636 9.8 JavaScript

  web development, streamlined (by sveltejs)

  

SvelteKit fails the maturity test but is something I'd use in a heartbeat once a stable version is released. It's what I've always dreamed of — one framework all in one language (JS/TS) that gracefully bridges the front/backend gap built on web standards:

https://kit.svelte.dev/

From the docs:

> Building an app with all the modern best practices is fiendishly complicated. Those practices include build optimizations, so that you load only the minimal required code; offline support; prefetching pages before the user initiates navigation; and configurable rendering that allows you to render your app on the server or in the browser at runtime or at build-time. SvelteKit does all the boring stuff for you so that you can get on with the creative part.

• aws-gocljs

  22 36 0.0 Go

  fullstack web should be easy

go, clojurescript, and aws. all three of these have problems, but like linux are the least bad of the available options. from some angles they are even quite good.

- go, a natural fit for backend with types and compilers and speed

- clojurescript (and react via reagent), a natural fit for frontend with dynamism, flexibility, and data centrism

- aws, a natural fit for infra. like linux, literally everyone is using it. if you avoid architect advice and tape over most of the knobs it’s quite good

example:

https://github.com/nathants/aws-gocljs

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