Productive stack for a solo developer

4 points by rigpa 7y ago ↗ HN

I'm looking for a productive, minimal headache inducing stack for a solo developer. It will involve a web app, and quite possibly a mobile app down the line. It will involve a lot of interactive content (delivering interactive educational material), but minimal technical complexity, and no scaling issues (very niche topic - never going to have a lot of requests per second).

Obviously makes sense to stick to a language I'm comfortable in - Ruby, Python, C#, Elixir, PHP, JS. Any thoughts/advice on productive solo development?

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wilbertliu 7y ago ↗

Use Rails & Heroku – just that. That's more than enough. One and only advice is don't follow the hype, just focus on what you wanna deliver. You can thank me later.

daleholborow 7y ago ↗

Check out servicestack.net . I'm not affiliated in any way but it's a pretty sweet framework that runs fast back end in dotnet core, Typescript API generator, fast microrm, caching, etc etc, all open source , with templates for all the common UI flavours. I use it whenever possible

aregsarkissian 7y ago ↗

Laravel backend with vuejs components deployed to laravel forge is my choice even though I am an enterprise asp.net core developer. Check out laracasts.com for their new series on the newly released Laravel 5.7

erokar 7y ago ↗

Completely agree with the other commenter recommending Rails. It seems perfect for what you describe. I know of no other stack that comes close to it in productivity, and I've tried a few. With Turbolinks and Webpacker you get an SPA feel for free and it's easy to sprinkle in JS where needed.