Ask HN: Web Stack for Side Projects?

Highly recommend https://htmx.org/. Makes it easy to create "good enough" UIs with minimal effort, and while spending most of your time writing backend code. Pair it with whatever the recommended C# web framework is. I'm using it for my own solo dev projects/startup and enjoying it a lot.

Thank you. Are there JS frameworks that help make HTMX shine?

Not really--the whole point of htmx is basically that it helps you get by without using a JS framework. It works great if you use it with a traditional server-side framework like rails, django etc.

> Most of my time as a developer was spent writing backend C#, but I have enough familiarity with Python and JS to be dangerous.

> My goals are: pickup marketable skills, scratch an itch, have as much fun as possible in the limited time I have to code.

Then try Wt: https://webtoolkit.eu

Here is what it is capable of: https://webtoolkit.eu/widgets

If you're familiar with the javascript ecosystem, I'd recommend looking at Remix or NextJS.

NextJS, tailwind and cloudflare workers

I <3 Django