How makers stay productive

I like to call my stack futurestack: I set it up every year, trying to maximize familiarity to ship products fast. It's not always the shiniest, but it works well.

github.com/matteing/futurestack

This year's stack:

• NextJS + Apollo
• Django REST Framework + Graphene

I have been with Python/Django for about 5 years, then switched to (currently) micro frameworks in Python + SQLAlchemy since 2016. So thin backends and then React JS for 4 years now.

This is my current stack:

• Python 3.6+
• Starlette
• Async Pg/My/… + SQLAlchemy (can use encode Databases library)
• Pydantic for validation (new for me)
• React
• React Router
• Redux, Thunk
• Bulma
• Ansible, DO
• If needed, RabbitMQ

Prefer Starlette and Databases mainly because it is from Tom Christie, the creator of Django Rest Framework - his switch to async. He is creating an entire async stack.

BE

• Go
• ArangoDB
• Nsq
• Redis
• Docker, Rancher 1.x

FE

• Vue/Vuex
• Bulma (boardengine bs 4)

I'm trying out full stack javascript frameworks (think Rails-esque but with JS) at the moment, which are essentially JAMStack + Serverless. I like JAMStack for its speed, security and I think to pair it with serverless is the future for me.

Currently building with blitzjs and redwoodjs

I'm a minimalist when it comes to choosing my stack.

NextJS + ExpressJS + MongoDB

Anyone use "Javascript - ExpressJS - NodeJS - MySQL"? :)

My current outdated stack (of 5 years!)

LEMP Stack Redis for object caching

We use WooCommerce

Am using this lockdown to learn and quickly redo the whole thing in: Next.JS Apollo GraphQL Yoga or Apollo GraphQL Prisma.

Going to connect this with a headless version of our existing WooCommerce store.

BE

• Ruby on Rails
• Nginx
• Redis
• PostgreSQL

FE

• jQuery
• Bootstrap 4

My coding environment looks like

• Vagrant env that mirrors my server setup
• Self-hosted Gitlab
• Self-hosted Sandstorm to quickly setup Rocket Chat, Kanban boards etc for each project
• Netbeans IDE (although I like the speed and small RAM footprint of Visual Studio or just plain Sublime I'm most familiar and fastest with Netbeans)
• Sequel Pro (best tool for SQL managing IMO)

Tech stack for Trufflepiggy:

• Symfony 3.4 LTS (PHP framework)
• Plain JS
• SASS
• PHP 7.4 with APC + OPC Caching
• Magallanes for complete automated SSH deployments with local and server side tasks like cache clearing, imageoptim, etc… One full deployment takes usually between 18 - 30 seconds + rollback options
• Gulp via NPM to run local tasks
• shell scripts to auto-build my browser extensions for all 4 platforms.

I try and use the stack I know well while considering what is best based on the problem and requirements.

I usually end up using:

• Ruby on Rails
• React
• React Native
• PostgresQL
• Redis

With various workers, depending on the task using either:

• ruby
• python
• go

Have started dockerizing everything too. 🙌

Backend

• Python Flask as the web framework
• Flask Smorest for implementing REST APIs
• Flask RQ2 for handling jobs
• SQLAlchemy as the ORM
• Postgres as the DB
• Everything hosted on Heroku

Frontend

• Vue.js
• Vuex REST API for consuming the backend API
• Buefy Bulma components
• Gridsome for generating static pages (usually for the marketing component of a product)

For service layer:

• .NET framework
• ASP.NET Web API
• SignalR
• SQLite

For user interface:

• Electron
• Angular
• Angular Material
• d3.js

For backend, always Django, though I did build one project with Node+Express.

MySQL or PostgreSQL.

Nginx or Apache.

As I hardly ever need a swanky front-end, I use vanilla JS or sometimes Vue (used to be jQuery).

Running Firebase, Angular, Tailwind CSS and Tailwind UI at the moment. Got lots of experience in Ionic Framework but wanted to go web first for #jonga and didn't want to fight the Ionic styles to do it.

I tried something new for my first project: Node.js + Express + MongoDB + React + GraphQL.

But for the second project I decided to stick with my regular stuck so I can ship faster: Rails + React + PostgreSQL

Here's mine:

• The main application is in Angular, with each route being a different library in an Nx monorepo
• The shared components library is written with StencilJS. Wonderfully small bundles - which for my app are crucial for success
• Backend is Firebase written with NestJS
• Use Google Cloud Tasks for async tasks processing
• A few plain Typescript scripts for the product SDK that uses Rollup for bundling

I'm favouring a functional stack 😁

• Elm
• Elixir (Phoenix)
• Postgres

I am starting a new project with this bad boys.

FE

• React
• NextJS + Apollo Client
• ChakraUI

BE

• Apollo Server
• Prisma.io 2
• Postgres

Html, CSS, JS. Learning: Gatsby now

Old, boring, and reliable: Ruby on Rails + PostgreSQL, deployed on Heroku. :)

I have tried not to wonder to far in what we use for products, that way a lot of code is re-useable.

• DotNetCore (C#) / JS / SignalR
• Azure App Services
• MSSQL Server (Azure)
• Blob Storage (Azure)
• Stripe
• Bootstrap
• Google Analytics
• SendGrid
• Mailchimp

I'm currently using a custom framework that I built and improved on every new project since 3 years ago based on Express.js and Sequelize, and for the frontend I'm using React.js + Redux.

It's nothing fancy but I don't care. I don't want to use the latest library/framework just because it's cool, I want to use something that ships and that I'm confident about using in production.