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Vicente G. Reyes
Vicente G. Reyes

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What's your tech stack?

What's your tech stack? I wanna learn from the community what I could use this year.

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webbureaucrat • Edited
  • Postgres (gives you the flexibility to go object-relational if you need)
  • postgREST (a rest service that sits directly on top of Postgres. It's interesting.)
  • Actix Web (really sensible, flexible, well-typed web framework that will blow your hair back)
  • Elm (a front end framework/language that guarantees no runtime exceptions except for accidental infinite recursion)
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Pierre Gradot

Did you get a chance a make real-life comparison between Actix Web and other similar Rust frameworks?

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webbureaucrat

I did not. I was a Rust beginner at the time I picked it up, and honestly I decided to choose a framework by popularity. I wanted something with the widest adoption so I could find answers when searching because at the time I knew I was going to struggle working through Rust issues.

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Pierre Gradot

Did you have previous experiences with other languages on similar projects? Any feedback on Rust for that?

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webbureaucrat

Yeah I come from ASP.NET (WebForms, MVC, and MVC Core) and a little Play Framework for Scala.

I like the C-like syntax of C#, but I am extremely offput anymore by null and by the concept of runtime exceptions.

So whereas most people like Rust for its speed and borrow checker, I picked it up because it has strict null checking and forces good exception handling.

From that perspective, having to learn the borrow checker was a very high price to pay because I would've been just as happy with a much slower, garbage-collected language. But since I couldn't find such a language, it was worth it because I really hate runtime exceptions that much, and I have to admit the speed is really something if you're used to something like C# or Python or JavaScript. You aren't waiting around for your web server to start up like you are in other languages. It's nice to have.

So that's my experience. I'm not sure whether I fully answered your question, but feel free to ask follow ups.

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Ben Halpern

Rails powered by Postgres has done me well

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Vicente G. Reyes

I've been wanting to learn ruby for rails and sonic pi. Will include this in my 2026 road map. Thanks, Ben!

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Oscar

Django, React, Docker, and Nginx. I use Postgres as my DB, but I'm not doing anything special with that.

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Vicente G. Reyes

We almost have the same tech stack. I use FastAPI for some projects tho. I use cookiecutter-django. Do you use cookiecutter?

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Oscar

I don't (but probably should). I have my own template repo for doing stuff with react. It's really outdated though. I need to update it at some point lol.

Also, I use DRF as my API framework. I have been thinking about using a different one though -- in the future, at least.

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Vicente G. Reyes

Cool boilerplate!

Yeah, FastAPI is great but the downside is you need to recreate the django admin if you choose to build with FastAPI

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Oscar

That seems annoying! Out of curiosity, have you ever tried Django Ninja? I've been wanting to give it a shot for a while.

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Vicente G. Reyes

It really is!

No I haven't tried django ninja. But I've read it's easier to use than DRF. Is it true?

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Oscar

At the very least, the documentation certainly looks nicer! I just browse the source code for DRF most of the time because the documentation is kinda.. not great.

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Kevin Naidoo

Golang is good for nearly everything web. You don't need a framework (although I also use Echo or Fibre) and can optimize for speed of execution and development. Second to Go, I'll alternate between Laravel and Django as the need arises.

DBs: Postgresql, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB.
Web servers: Nginx, occasionally Apache2
Scripts and ML: Bash, Python

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Vicente G. Reyes

I'm fascinated by Golang. Will probably learn it towards the end of the year if I find a use case for it.

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André Borba

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Jeff Mitchell

Axum and Tower ecosystem for the backend. Tera templating, Leptos, maybe Yew, on the frontend. All the things hosted on Shuttle.

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mateenozil

htmx + pocketbase

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patrick0806

My stack is a bit of a mess, I've dealt with a lot of things, but currently I'd say it's Java with spring boot or quarkus, nodejs for creating microservices, and database or messaging services that change according to the context and a little bit of react to the front

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MelissaNichols

Great question! My tech stack has evolved over time, but right now, I'm really into Python for backend development, with frameworks like Django and Flask for web apps. matchbox 9 registration

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Hirak Kalita

HTML CSS JS, MySQL, PHP, React, Vite, Tailwind. Started with HTML, currently going through React...