Ask HN: What tech stack would you use for your next small/middle project?

Phoenix! Elixir is a lovely language with genuinely useful language features you'll miss in other languages (like with and partial function defs), Phoenix is elegant and once the immutable model clicks with you you'll wonder why you ever lived without it, and Ecto is a brilliant DB access layer that avoids many of the pitfalls of ORMs. All that and you'll be as productive as you're in any ol' MVC framework, great tooling in VS Code, and you get LiveView, which makes JS SPA frameworks redundant unless you really need the SPA interactivity. Just try it out.

E: I know with is elixir's version of do notation. Please don't badger me about that.

Rather than picking a “stack”, I would encourage starting with what’s the problem being solved, for who, and then figure out the tech from there.

It sounds like your area is specifically on a service and web front end. Can you describe what you’re wanting to do, even at a very high level?

Node, React, etc. this might all just be overkill.

Lazarus/Free Pascal - It's all I use these days. It avoids the hassle of .NET, produces small executables, and just works.

If I had to do something on the web, I'd use the LAMP stack at my ISP.

Laravel, and the TALL stack. Maybe also Unpoly for certain parts.

I'd avoid SPAs as hell. Just a total waste of my time/money and end user's resources. If employer wants to use his money for SPAs, I'd build them happily.