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How I Feel Choosing a Tech Stack in 2020
What a pleasure to start a project with a clean slate! Are there any words more beautiful than git init? Just gotta decide what my tools will be.
More and more, the Jamstack is the way to go. But the market is still astonishingly biased towards Wordpress, it never seems to go out of fashion. Shouldn’t I learn that?
No, I want an actual web app. I want it to be fast and secure, too. Wordpress isn’t cool. Managing servers isn’t cool. Jamstack is much better. Moving on!
Modern web apps are built with modern front-end frameworks. React is the obvious choice here. But Svelte makes much more sense. It proved itself to be faster, easier to learn, less verbose. It’s clearly better. But Svelte doesn’t have Typescript support yet…
If I’m gonna go for TypeScript, shouldn’t I go all-in with an actually typed language? Blazor came out and it looks really promising.
But I’m no C# developer, if I’m going to consider learning a new language I might as well consider Nim and Elm.
No, Nim and Elm, as awesome as they might be, don’t have big enough communities. Too risky.
But then again, if community is what matters most, React becomes the obvious choice again. React + Jamstack = Gatsby or Next.js. (There are many other React-based Static…
