alt Hacker NewsI've found Vite + React SPA ( Tanstack Router/Query) with a Nodejs/Fast API to work so simply and so easy to reason about. The entire SSR and caching etc. thing adds a lot of mental overhead.
Not to mention this stack can be deployed literally anywhere with great ease.
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kristiandupont • today at 7:11 AM
Completely agree. I've had to work with NextJS the past three places I've been and I hate it. I get that there are certain use cases where you want SSR, I guess like an e-commerce site where everything is dynamic but the user isn't logged in and you want SEO. But for a regular SPA, running Vite with a simple router (I like https://kyeotic.github.io/raviger/) is orders of magnitude simpler to work with.
My favorite combo is NextJS with static export and fastapi backend. Last three years I’ve done countless projects like this, now I just go forward with muscle memory.
For python just get SQLModel (that is basically SQLAlchemy + pydantic), alembic, develop in hexagonal architecture (or just follow the advanced architecture pattern with Python book) and that’s it.
For frontend, just go with tailwind, shadcn, tanstack...
Maybe in 10 years people will look at these technologies as I look at Oracle/JEE today, but they are making me so happy.