Vicente G. Reyes

Posted on Jan 7

What's your tech stack?

#discuss #watercooler

What's your tech stack? I wanna learn from the community what I could use this year.

Top comments (51)

webbureaucrat • Jan 8 • Edited

Postgres (gives you the flexibility to go object-relational if you need)
postgREST (a rest service that sits directly on top of Postgres. It's interesting.)
Actix Web (really sensible, flexible, well-typed web framework that will blow your hair back)
Elm (a front end framework/language that guarantees no runtime exceptions except for accidental infinite recursion)

Andreas Møller • Jan 11

It is not often you hear of Elm any more. When did you start the project?

webbureaucrat • Jan 13

It's been a year or two since I started a new project. The lack of repo activity is unsettling, but the benefits of Elm over the next best option are such that I'd still reach for it if I were looking for a new frontend framework today.

Pierre Gradot • Jan 8

Did you get a chance a make real-life comparison between Actix Web and other similar Rust frameworks?

webbureaucrat • Jan 8

I did not. I was a Rust beginner at the time I picked it up, and honestly I decided to choose a framework by popularity. I wanted something with the widest adoption so I could find answers when searching because at the time I knew I was going to struggle working through Rust issues.

Pierre Gradot • Jan 8

Did you have previous experiences with other languages on similar projects? Any feedback on Rust for that?

webbureaucrat • Jan 8

Yeah I come from ASP.NET (WebForms, MVC, and MVC Core) and a little Play Framework for Scala.

I like the C-like syntax of C#, but I am extremely offput anymore by null and by the concept of runtime exceptions.

So whereas most people like Rust for its speed and borrow checker, I picked it up because it has strict null checking and forces good exception handling.

From that perspective, having to learn the borrow checker was a very high price to pay because I would've been just as happy with a much slower, garbage-collected language. But since I couldn't find such a language, it was worth it because I really hate runtime exceptions that much, and I have to admit the speed is really something if you're used to something like C# or Python or JavaScript. You aren't waiting around for your web server to start up like you are in other languages. It's nice to have.

So that's my experience. I'm not sure whether I fully answered your question, but feel free to ask follow ups.

Pierre Gradot • Jan 9

Yes it does :)

I have very few experience with HTPP API development, and I have to pick one in Rust. That's why I was asking.

I have a C++ background, so I didn't came to Rust for speed neither. I completely understand your points.

Ben Halpern • Jan 7

Rails powered by Postgres has done me well

Vicente G. Reyes • Jan 8

I've been wanting to learn ruby for rails and sonic pi. Will include this in my 2026 road map. Thanks, Ben!

CitronBrick • Jan 9

Do you already know Ruby ?

Vicente G. Reyes • Jan 10

I had a freelance gig a few years back with Learnetto wherein I created a React on Rails course from a blog without learning ruby. So to answer your question, no I don't know ruby yet.

patrick0806 • Jan 8

My stack is a bit of a mess, I've dealt with a lot of things, but currently I'd say it's Java with spring boot or quarkus, nodejs for creating microservices, and database or messaging services that change according to the context and a little bit of react to the front

Oscar • Jan 7

Django, React, Docker, and Nginx. I use Postgres as my DB, but I'm not doing anything special with that.

Vicente G. Reyes • Jan 7

We almost have the same tech stack. I use FastAPI for some projects tho. I use cookiecutter-django. Do you use cookiecutter?

Oscar • Jan 7

I don't (but probably should). I have my own template repo for doing stuff with react. It's really outdated though. I need to update it at some point lol.

Also, I use DRF as my API framework. I have been thinking about using a different one though -- in the future, at least.

Vicente G. Reyes • Jan 7

Cool boilerplate!

Yeah, FastAPI is great but the downside is you need to recreate the django admin if you choose to build with FastAPI

Oscar • Jan 7

That seems annoying! Out of curiosity, have you ever tried Django Ninja? I've been wanting to give it a shot for a while.

Vicente G. Reyes • Jan 7

It really is!

No I haven't tried django ninja. But I've read it's easier to use than DRF. Is it true?

Oscar • Jan 7

At the very least, the documentation certainly looks nicer! I just browse the source code for DRF most of the time because the documentation is kinda.. not great.

J19Z • Jan 12

I’ve used Flask for a few projects, but now I’m learning a framework called Reflex. It lets you build both front-end and back-end entirely in Python. Reflex renders React components, uses FastAPI as its back-end framework, and integrates Tailwind CSS for styling under the hood. I’m working with Postgres, Docker, and VS Code as part of my stack.

Vicente G. Reyes • Jan 12

ooohhh this is interesting

Peter Harrison • Jan 9

The tech stack depends on what you are doing. I've been a Java dev for the most part, which means Java/Spring/Postgresql/K8s. But I've also maintained a AWS/Lambda/SQS/S3/Node/Python stack. And now its a Python/FastAPI/Vue/MongoDB stack. Its mix and match now, different languages, different deployment environments, different front ends. Not like there is a standard 'LAMP' stack anymore.

Thomas Nixon • Jan 9

Using the BaselineJS Framework github.com/Baseline-JS/core

🎁 Package Management: Pnpm + Monorepo
🔨 Language & Build: TypeScript + ESBuild
🖼 Frontend: React + Vite
⚙️ Backend: NodeJS + Express
🎨 Linting & Formatting: Prettier + Eslint
🏗 IaC: AWS CLI + Serverless Framework
🚀 Deploy: GitHub Actions
🗂️ Database: DynamoDB
🔐 Auth: Cognito
💻 Compute: Lambda
🌎 CDN: CloudFront
🌐 DNS: Route53
📊 Monitoring: CloudWatch
🔗 API Management: API Gateway
📦 Storage: S3

Faisal ALHoqani • Jan 8

Hi dear, I'm coming from Oracle Forms and Reports background then I shift to ASP.NET MVC .NET Core and still our database is Oracle database and I notes it strengthening SQL is a crucial skill which can set you apart from others.