Ask HN: What would your stack be if you started from scratch today?

Posted by pilom on Sunday January 20, 2019 @11:34AM
from the ask-hn dept.

Thinking of a new side project and looking for the opportunity to learn new things. Ideally things that are popular and could help me get hired if I decided to move jobs. Ideally it would be serverless because of the cost savings for a small project and because I'm interested in that but I want to hear what others would choose and why.

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Re:Ask HN: What would your stack be if you started from scra... by mortivore on Sunday January 20, 2019 @04:16PM (#18955653)

If you're looking for a stack for the purpose of increasing hire-ability then you might consider looking up the jobs in the area you're trying to get hired, and seeing what comes up the most.

On the other hand, you could play around with multiple stacks, and see what you like. Then choose an area based on that.

Personally, if I was starting from scratch today I'd probably focus on the C# .Net Microsoft stack because there are a lot of jobs for that in my area.

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Re:Ask HN: What would your stack be if you started from scra... by patatino on Sunday January 20, 2019 @11:54AM (#18953962)

Vue + firebase gets you up and running pretty fast. Firebase has auth, hosting and nosql database which I challenged myself to learn last year. Was my first javascript only project. Big step for a backend guy ;)

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Re:Ask HN: What would your stack be if you started from scra... by sebmak on Monday January 21, 2019 @09:19AM (#18960491)

My ideal stack is: React -> Go -> MySQL and Redis

But as for the terms of hire-ability, in my opinion, it is more important to understand the core concepts of programming independent of a technology or language. But as for trying to get hired, there are jobs out there for nearly every language/stack you can think of. So you could just start looking around your area and finding something that is popular with companies in the area.

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Re:Ask HN: What would your stack be if you started from scra... by nobody271 on Sunday January 20, 2019 @09:32PM (#18957157)

SQL Server -> Web API -> Static Pages -> Regular JavaScript (with small libraries as needed) -> webpack (if bundling and minification are required).

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Re:Ask HN: What would your stack be if you started from scra... by rayvy on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @06:47PM (#18984468)

- React JS/Native on the front - Python for general/glue code - Redis for cache - Some relation tier-2 storage (MySQL) - Rust for the computationally/machine intensive stuff - Airflow for scheduling

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Re:Ask HN: What would your stack be if you started from scra... by d--b on Monday January 21, 2019 @12:59AM (#18957996)

It depends!

Serverless latency is a problem to consider. That definitely killed it for my project.

My goto stack is MySQL/nodejs with express/plain js for frontend.

Because I’m fast at this.

I would try .Net core, though I don’t think they have anything remotely as easy as node.

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Re:Ask HN: What would your stack be if you started from scra... by manch23 on Monday January 21, 2019 @06:08AM (#18959505)

What stacks are you already familiar with?

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Re:Ask HN: What would your stack be if you started from scra... by whttheuuu on Monday January 21, 2019 @02:06PM (#18962654)

React -> Django -> MySQL

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