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My priorities have been full stack and solo developer.

I'm back on Google App Engine Java 8 runtime with a Clojure(Script) stack. I haven't found anything comparable yet that offers this amount of flexibility, scalability and generous free tier to get started.

Google seems to take Steve Yegge's Platform Rant [0] as a blueprint to try to beat Amazon at the Cloud game and creates an API for anything you can think of.

As usual, the documentation and their support is terrible, but who needs support or documentation when you have a REPL?

It's been a real pleasure to work with and I'm currently in the process of open sourcing some tooling libraries to smooth out the rough edges (Caveat: These are not stable yet, so use at your own risk).

Currently working on a CLJC REPL over HTTP integrated with Emacs, but the following are available already -

Example ring project:

https://github.com/alpeware/jaq-example

Leinigen plugin:

https://github.com/alpeware/lein-jaq

Clojure bindings for App Engine services:

https://github.com/alpeware/jaq-services

[0] https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX

https://media0.giphy.com/media/l0MYu38R0PPhIXe36/giphy-tumbl...

I work in Elixir/Phoenix/React on a day-to-day basis.

The last few personal projects I've handled had been Elixir/Phoenix/jQuery, but I'm now switching out jQuery for Elm and am really liking it so far. I'm building a CI system which is more or less a small state machine which Elm benefits from. Moreover, Elm seems to be really loved by the Phoenix community and integrating between Phoenix channels and Elm subscriptions was super easy

Me LAMP, other people? maybe other stuff.

Picking a stack is a combination of the tools which will effectively solve whatever issues you have that work for how you develop as well as work with your computing platform(s) of choice.

a) start with whats readily available and what you can understand and learn/build from there. b) find what widely popular for your market (solutions will vary) and start with that.

A better question is "I am wanting to do [this] (and maybe [that]), what stacks work best for it? and why?"

I do data based web APPS, PHP/MySQL are well suited, they are pretty unrestrictive and very flexible - in that you need to be aware to code for security: watch your inputs and how code can be called and learn some good programming practices to avoid spaghetti code. They also scale pretty easily. They aren't bleeding edge exciting but get the job done quite easily.

Besides just asking find web apps you like and research what they are created with.

I'm a C++/Python dev by day, so web apps are all personal projects.

I've been using Python + Flask on personal projects just because Python.

On the front-end, I try to use as little JavaScript as I can get away with. Recently, I've been playing with Bulma, a CSS framework, and I've been liking it so far.

I've been meaning to learn some React for some parts of my apps that require more interactivity.

I highly recommend Flask for people with some Python knowledge.

Python/Flask React. Hosted on a linux box (ubuntu) in the cloud.

We have an all-Scala stack with some nice properties:

* Code sharing between client and server

* Typed AJAX between client and server

* Component based UI on the frontend

Frontend: React4s (shameless plug I suppose)

http://www.react4s.org/examples/todo-list

Backend: Akka HTTP

https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka-http/current/index.html

Typed AJAX: Autowire with uPickle

Almost the same question was asked a few days ago, lots of answers:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16508965

General popularity of LAMP python and rails, with very few js FOTM stacks mentioned.

Check out Enonic XP - https://enonic.com. Runs in any cloud and you can build your server side logic in Javascript. Embedded NoSQL, search engine, identity and (headless) CMS. Open Source on github.

I think it's fair to add a disclaimer the commenter works for enomic. (self promotion itself is totally fine of course).

Agreed.

Solo-developer on my side project...

* Frontend: Vue.js 2, JavaScript ECMA 2017

* Backend: Erlang/OTP 20, Elixir 1.6.3, Phoenix 1.3.2

* Persistence: Postgres 9.5.4.2

* Hosting: Vultr

Used to be django and postgres. For the next one, I might swap django out for something golang.

Work: ASP.NET MVC + KnockoutJS on my team (other teams using React etc.)

Home: Elm + BaaS (Parse)

PHP7, Laravel, and MySQL.

Everything JavaScript

ROR for web with html, Golang as api sever.

Postgresql as databases

Scala with Play framework. Angular for front end.

React - GraphQL (with Graphcool Prisma)

React - nodejs - mongoDB

Opinions on ASP.NET Core ?

I use it for a web app and find that version 2 is super stable and though there are some minor issues, I am able to work on Mac with Visual Studio Code while my teammate uses Visual Studio on Windows. It's the best of all worlds at this point and Microsoft is investing in it to the point that it doesn't feel like a potential liability the way some of their dead end projects have ended up.

nextjs && node for api. some laravel on backend

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