Tech Stack

[AryanJ-NYC]

In an effort to consolidate discussion, what tech stack should we use for the back-end? Front-end? Database? REST or GraphQL? Any services we should leverage? Should we use a monorepo?

I've had great success with NestJS as a backend framework (it's based off Node) and would suggest we use that.

[francocorreasosa]

Thinking about a tech stack, the first thing it comes to my mind is using React with Next (for simplicity) and Node.js with any relational database (could be Postgres maybe) in the backend. connect those two with a REST/GraphQL API, and use Mandrill/Sendgrid/Custom SMTP for email sending.

Any thoughts on that?

[sivatheja10]

Loopback is good for API's

[briancbarrow]

I personally prefer Vue on the frontend, but I'm open to others.

[keyserfaty]

My vote for BE goes to Node/Postgres/GraphQL

[Guusy]

I think we can use react, it is very popular and has a big community

[mikelnorth]

I think low point of entry should be highly considered as well including the scalability. This way we can try to get big buy-in from the community, especially those who have never contributed in open source.

The FCC curriculum should also be considered and built upon what is thought there IMO but am happy to contribute to what the general consensus is.

I think using either React or Vue on the frontend and Node on the backend gives great scalable benefits, as well as a massive community that could get involved.

I prefer a Postgres DB but could be swayed. same goes for REST VS GraphQL, I would hang towards REST for the simplicity of securing endpoints and providing only designated data

[AryanJ-NYC]

For those voting for Node, are you opposed to using NestJS as a framework to get up and running?

[francocorreasosa]

@AryanJ-NYC I like Nest, but being realistic that could block people without knowledge of Typescript from contributing.

[AryanJ-NYC]

I agree with that. FWIW, you can use NestJS with vanilla JS instead of TS.

[Abott1222]

Golang ftw. One of the best languages for creating microservices. Also has a lot of strong ORM packages and it is built by Google.

[ericvicenti]

Conversation here is trending towards Node.js/React/Next.js

https://discordapp.com/channels/633401573002969128/633422435865329674

[kylemh]

I'd love to use https://github.com/OperationCode/front-end as a template.

• Next.js (React) with Now for continuous deployment.
• Jest for unit tests and Cypress for integration tests. @testing-library as an adapter for both.
• Storybook for component workbenching
• Mergify for automatic dependency upgrades
• CircleCI for continuous integration.

It's worked well with a lot of open source contributors around the world.

[chrismgonzalez]

I’m going to echo what @kylemh said with regards to the stack. As far as API/DB goes - Node, Postgres, & GraphQL

[francocorreasosa]

I'm thinking we could use Next for both SSR and API routing (this is newly supported, but it seems promising) unless you want to go with something like raw express.