Ask HN: Web Stack for Side Projects?

Posted by anoojb on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @12:26PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I’m a PM. Most of my day is spent writing prose and meeting with customers.

However, I miss writing code and I have a few ideas for web apps that I want to try building this winter break.

Most of my time as a developer was spent writing backend C#, but I have enough familiarity with Python and JS to be dangerous.

What kind of tools should I try out to make these web apps? My goals are: pickup marketable skills, scratch an itch, have as much fun as possible in the limited time I have to code.

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Re:Ask HN: Web Stack for Side Projects? by jacobobryant on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @12:33PM (#33790545)

Highly recommend https://htmx.org/. Makes it easy to create "good enough" UIs with minimal effort, and while spending most of your time writing backend code. Pair it with whatever the recommended C# web framework is. I'm using it for my own solo dev projects/startup and enjoying it a lot.

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Re:Ask HN: Web Stack for Side Projects? by anoojb on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @12:53PM (#33790793)

Thank you. Are there JS frameworks that help make HTMX shine?

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Re:Ask HN: Web Stack for Side Projects? by jacobobryant on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @01:16PM (#33791105)

Not really--the whole point of htmx is basically that it helps you get by without using a JS framework. It works great if you use it with a traditional server-side framework like rails, django etc.

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Re:Ask HN: Web Stack for Side Projects? by jklein11 on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @02:45PM (#33792278)

I <3 Django

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Re:Ask HN: Web Stack for Side Projects? by deepsy on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @03:23PM (#33792752)

If you're familiar with the javascript ecosystem, I'd recommend looking at Remix or NextJS.

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Re:Ask HN: Web Stack for Side Projects? by _448 on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @02:49AM (#33798071)

> Most of my time as a developer was spent writing backend C#, but I have enough familiarity with Python and JS to be dangerous.

> My goals are: pickup marketable skills, scratch an itch, have as much fun as possible in the limited time I have to code.

Then try Wt: https://webtoolkit.eu

Here is what it is capable of: https://webtoolkit.eu/widgets

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Re:Ask HN: Web Stack for Side Projects? by renaissance_tea on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @03:02AM (#33798153)

NextJS, tailwind and cloudflare workers

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