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A comment on Ask HN: Full stack devs, what helped you noticeably reduce development time?.

Re:Ask HN: Full stack devs, what helped you noticeably reduc... by cimmanom on Sunday January 20, 2019 @08:40AM (#18952984)
Use a batteries-included RAD framework (like Rails or Django).

Even if you’re already using RAD frameworks, start building yourself a library of boilerplate and utilities on top of it that you can reuse in multiple projects.

Avoid single-page apps and JS-rendered clients until you really need them for interactivity. They basically double the work.

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Re:Ask HN: Full stack devs, what helped you noticeably reduc... by wreath on Monday January 21, 2019 @10:06AM (#18960817)
> Even if you’re already using RAD frameworks, start building yourself a library of boilerplate and utilities on top of it that you can reuse in multiple projects.

I would suggest fork one of the existing ones and modify it. Rolling out your own boilerplate library can be a time sucker in itself.

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Re:Ask HN: Full stack devs, what helped you noticeably reduc... by lastofus on Monday January 21, 2019 @01:45PM (#18962453)
Learning and customizing someone else's boilerplate can be just as time consuming, though you will probably learn a thing or two in the process.
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