A fun tech stack
authored by Luke B. Silver on 1/7/2023If you want to enjoy writing web applications, I highly recommend the following web stack.
The SKPTPS stack. Unfortunately, it doesn’t roll off the tongue.
Svelte + SvelteKit
Svelte offers a component based model that is a joy to use. It is both expressive and a powerful. No frontend framework feels closer to the web.
SvelteKit is the obvious choice to pair with Svelte. SSR, SSG, dev server and everything else you would expect in a modern web framework. Data fetching and forms actions are the quickest, and most robust way to add server side functionality to a site.
PicoCSS
Don’t both reinventing the wheel, PicoCSS restyles most HTML component and provides the basic styling required for 95% of your application.
TypeScript
Share your types between client and server to catch a bunch of bugs. Svelte is flexible, so for simple, or purely view-oriented, components you don’t even need to use TS.
Prisma + SQLite
Querying your DB with GraphQL is sexy stuff, and once again generated types help catch bugs. With Prisma you have a bunch of options for your database, but unless you have a good reason - why not SQLite?
A lot of folks pick something fancier, becoming carried away with plans to scale. I think it is a mistake to give up the simplicity of SQLite so easily.