HACKER Q&A
📣 mrtz

What's your preferred stack for personal projects?


I.e. stuff you build in your spare time for fun.


  👤 solardev Accepted Answer ✓
Next.js + MUI + Vercel, with Jetbrains and Github behind the scenes. Super easy and fast DX. Maybe Astro for simpler projects.

Grew up in the LAMP world and wrote HTML/CSS/JS by hand. Not going back to that.

I keep wanting to learn Swift (I miss nice, fast desktop apps) but never seem to have time...


👤 JohnFen
It varies a lot depending on the project, but generally I'm just using gcc, make, and a text editor. I'll use Eclipse as an IDE for particularly complex projects.

👤 kbrecordzz
A Linux web server where I write HTML and Javascript and then I check if it works in a web browser.

👤 brettkromkamp
Flask (Python), FastAPI and htmx. A very capable stack while still be manageable by a solo-developer.

👤 marssaxman
Linux, Python and/or C++, sometimes ncurses.

👤 ale_jacques
Django + Unpoly + Bootstrap + Postgres

👤 beretguy
LAMP. No frameworks, no JavaScript.

👤 steve_gh
Rails + SQLite