Ask HN: What is your modern web development stack?
Such as:
- language/framework
- JavaScript libraries
- HTML/layout frameworks
- CSS preprocessor
- deployment web server
- database
- containers, VMs, bare metal?
Backend: Clojure + Postgres. Keep it as simple as possible.
Frontend: Simple server-side templating in Clojure if that's sufficient. React (from either JS or ClojureScript) if non-trivial client-side interactivity is needed. My experiences with Javascript "frosting" on mostly-server-side applications hasn't been great -- can easily end up more complicated than an all-React implementation, even if you need server-side rendering.
But I'm increasingly keen to avoid the JVM, so future projects will probably have something else on the backend. I've used node backends a few times recently, mostly in "need to glue something together fast" contexts, and have been pleasantly surprised.
VueJS + Vuetify + Micronaut/Groovy (services) + Postgres
All of it is (except postgres) pure JVM so the VM vs bare metal question is more a logistics / deployment choice.
Databases: MongoDB Atlas, MySQL & Firestore
Frontend: React for the app, Wordpress for the marketing site
Frontend: (current) Bootstrap, jQuery (future) evaluating Vue.js
Auth / SSO: CAS, OAuth, Spring Security
Frontend: React for data intensive applications. Vannila js for everything else.
Frontend: Asp.net/Javascript/Ext.Net/CSS
I use jenkins for both