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Ask HN: What technologies are you using for new projects?

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As the title states, what technologies are you using for new projects? Either for work or hobby!

Some chisels and Japanese saws. /s Honestly, what do you expect to get back from such a question? The answers are completely useless to anybody, unless they provide some context about the project. Is it a piece of software? Should it run locally on your laptop, on your smartphone, on your tv, on your refrigerator? Should it be a web application? Is it mostly static text? Does it store user data? Do users exchange information? Is it a piece of custom electronic hardware?

On the other hand, given some context and some reasoning why a technology was chosen, one could really something from the answers.

Just learned the other day to be careful when using what appears to be a saw for flush cuts (Suizan I think) that the little blades stick up/out a bit so its not good to use for flush cutting a dowel since it marks up the surface. I think putting some painters tape down helps when in doubt.

I have a read-it-later tool (https://hamsterbase.com/) that I've been maintaining as a hobby for 2 years, supporting Mac, Linux, Windows, iOS, Android, and self-hosted Docker.

All these versions share the same codebase.

VSCF: I extracted part of the source code from VS Code and developed a framework called VSCF. It includes commands, themes, dependency injection, key bindings, IPC.

https://github.com/hamsterbase/vscf

Local server: On top of VSCF, I developed the underlying business logic, and file IO, SQLite, and the logic related to synchronization will be placed here.

Frontend: On top of VSCF, I used TypeScript and React for front-end development.

nodejs-mobile: This is an open-source project that allows me to use Node.js on mobile devices.

https://github.com/nodejs-mobile

Self-hosted version = local server + frontend, using WebSocket for communication.

Desktop version = Electron + local server + frontend, using Electron's IPC for communication.

Mobile version = nodejs-mobile + self-hosted version. Users use webview to access the UI. It looks just like a native application. They can even use their phones as servers to access data on their phones from a computer.

I'm starting a new project using Ruby on Rails, mostly because it has been a while since I looked at it and my initial experiments with it have worked nicely.

I'm working on it over here: https://github.com/foocorp/hacienda -- no code yet.

Ruby on Rails Postgresql Bootstrap DigitalOcean Cloudflare

Still the same. Still working perfectly. No need to change and waste time learning something new.

what is the setup , how do you architecture the frontend backend and db ?

I use CouchD, PouchDB, jQuery & Bootstrap. That works good for offline and local first apps.

Rails if I care about the project more than about the tech.

Python FastAPI if I want LLM backends.

Using Netlify for deploys. Prefab for config / logging.

commander-rb for CLI.

replit for projects I want to collaborate on with kids.

NextJS, Python for ML and other glue, Kubernetes, Google Cloud

I'm giving Cloudflare a look, managing domains there now since Google domains got sold off

Postgres/Elixir/Phoenix for more or less everything. Takes a while to get good, but after that the productivity is insane

I agree!

I have a strong distain for web dev due to the JS ecosystem and a new framework every 2 weeks but Elixir + Phoenix + LiveView seems like the perfect web dev stack for me...no need to switch languages/stacks from frontend to backend and no need to deal with the JS ecosystem (to an extent).

I've been a hobby iOS/Mac dev for a couple years now and recently learned SwiftUI + SwiftData for a new project.

Go and Postgres.

Lately all new "projects" have been in shell.

.Net and ASP.Net Core, Maui, and maybe Avalonia.

Svelte has been amazing compared to React.

VHDL for designing a new chip.

Tcl and SGML

React + Supabase.

primatejs and surrealdb

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