No More Hustleporn: If you were building a new web app/SaaS in 2023, what would your tech stack be?
Tweet by Justin Jackson
https://twitter.com/mijustin
@mijustin:
If you were building a new web app/SaaS in 2023, what would your tech stack be?
(Rails,
@laravelphp
? Fancy new JS framework? What database setup would you use? Where would you host it?)
@mijustin:
Personally, I'm still on team "full stack web dev" (Laravel, Rails).
Most indie SaaS these days are still being built on mature web frameworks:
@SnapShooterio
(Laravel)
@bannerbearHQ
(Rails)
@TransistorFM
(Rails)
@usefathom
(Laravel)
@hostifi_net
(Laravel)
@ZipMessage
(Rails)
@mijustin:
If I was in charge of PR for Rails/Laravel, I'd focus on getting more young people to learn these frameworks.
- Make it easier to get started
- Make it more fun (sample projects)
- Get it into more bootcamps
@taylorotwell
and I chatted about this here:
youtube.com/watch?v=MQnpcn…
@mijustin:
"What would you use to build a new web app in 2023?"
@nextjs
: 15
@laravelphp
: 15
@rails
: 14
@djangoproject
: 4
@elixirlang
: 3
Next.JS, Laravel, and Rails each constitute about 25% of responses to this thread.
#webdev
@mijustin:
According to Google Trends,
@nextjs
is picking up steam, but
@laravelphp
is the king.
trends.google.com/trends/explore…
@excid3:
Poor Rails 😭
@mijustin:
Overall search volume might be down, but actual usage is strong.
Lots of new SaaS companies in the 5 years have used Rails.
(
@ZipMessage
,
@bannerbearHQ
,
@TransistorFM
)
@yongfook:
browserbear.com
also using Rails 7 ;)