Frontend: (vanilla) React with TypeScript.
- TypeScript is more important than React, static typing is such a productivity boost, even for projects of all sizes.
- Start with vanilla React and create-react-app, monitor for painpoints and look for solutions for these pain points in the community, don't look at the whole ecosystem before you start building stuff.
Backend: Kotlin on the JVM.
Kotlin is a really nice language for either functional or object oriented programming. Static typing with strict null checks are again a huge productivity boost. Standard library is very complete
Beeing on the JVM without beeing stuck with Java is a big win:
- unlocks a huge ecosystem and Java interoperability of Kotlin is superb.There are a lot of lightweight frameworks for stuff around here, enterprise Java is a myth if you are free to choose what to use.
- special shoutout to the JOOQ library, the golden middleground between an ORM and raw SQL Strings.
- JVM is fast
- fat jars are somewhat like containers, can be run everywhere with minimal setup (yeah I'm looking at you python-uwsgi black magic)
Database:
Postgresql. Everything you need (relational, JSON), fast, rocksolid
- TypeScript is more important than React, static typing is such a productivity boost, even for projects of all sizes.
- Start with vanilla React and create-react-app, monitor for painpoints and look for solutions for these pain points in the community, don't look at the whole ecosystem before you start building stuff.
Backend: Kotlin on the JVM.
Kotlin is a really nice language for either functional or object oriented programming. Static typing with strict null checks are again a huge productivity boost. Standard library is very complete
Beeing on the JVM without beeing stuck with Java is a big win:
- unlocks a huge ecosystem and Java interoperability of Kotlin is superb.There are a lot of lightweight frameworks for stuff around here, enterprise Java is a myth if you are free to choose what to use.
- special shoutout to the JOOQ library, the golden middleground between an ORM and raw SQL Strings.
- JVM is fast
- fat jars are somewhat like containers, can be run everywhere with minimal setup (yeah I'm looking at you python-uwsgi black magic)
Database: Postgresql. Everything you need (relational, JSON), fast, rocksolid