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Ask HN: What would your stack be if you started from scratch today?

13 points by pilom ↗ HN
Thinking of a new side project and looking for the opportunity to learn new things. Ideally things that are popular and could help me get hired if I decided to move jobs. Ideally it would be serverless because of the cost savings for a small project and because I'm interested in that but I want to hear what others would choose and why.

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patatino
Vue + firebase gets you up and running pretty fast. Firebase has auth, hosting and nosql database which I challenged myself to learn last year. Was my first javascript only project. Big step for a backend guy ;)
mortivore
If you're looking for a stack for the purpose of increasing hire-ability then you might consider looking up the jobs in the area you're trying to get hired, and seeing what comes up the most.

On the other hand, you could play around with multiple stacks, and see what you like. Then choose an area based on that.

Personally, if I was starting from scratch today I'd probably focus on the C# .Net Microsoft stack because there are a lot of jobs for that in my area.

nobody271
SQL Server -> Web API -> Static Pages -> Regular JavaScript (with small libraries as needed) -> webpack (if bundling and minification are required).
d--b
It depends!

Serverless latency is a problem to consider. That definitely killed it for my project.

My goto stack is MySQL/nodejs with express/plain js for frontend.

Because I’m fast at this.

I would try .Net core, though I don’t think they have anything remotely as easy as node.

manch23
What stacks are you already familiar with?
sebmak
My ideal stack is: React -> Go -> MySQL and Redis

But as for the terms of hire-ability, in my opinion, it is more important to understand the core concepts of programming independent of a technology or language. But as for trying to get hired, there are jobs out there for nearly every language/stack you can think of. So you could just start looking around your area and finding something that is popular with companies in the area.

rayvy
- React JS/Native on the front - Python for general/glue code - Redis for cache - Some relation tier-2 storage (MySQL) - Rust for the computationally/machine intensive stuff - Airflow for scheduling