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What's your tech stack?

Nick Taylor on April 25, 2018

Photo courtesy of Flickr user kreturn I came across this post from @ben today while I was doing some daily reading on dev.to. ...

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Hugo Sáez • Apr 26 '18 • Edited

Backend

PHP - Laravel
MySQL
Redis for Queues & metadata
Algolia

Frontend

Vue
React Native for Mobile
SASS

Deployments and Infrastructure

DigitalOcean (Droplet & Spaces)
Deployer
Nginx

Scott Tadman • Apr 25 '18

There's tools like BuiltWith which are a good way to explore what other sites use. Although it can only use information that can be gleaned from the web responses, it can provide a surprising amount of insight into the stacks others use, especially on the front-end.

rhymes • Apr 26 '18 • Edited

stackshare.io/ is also very useful

Vinay Hegde • Apr 30 '18 • Edited

Siftery should also help as Stackshare tends to miss out on certain organizations.

The catch? On siftery, you can only view content on sign-up which needs a work email ID, i.e: Gmail / Hotmail / Yahoo won't work. A workaround I use is to create an account using email ID(s) via Temp-Mail

rahuldev-svg • Sep 24 '19 • Edited

the only useful website i think is disposable mail its useful becaause its help you to reduce spam

Elkhan • Apr 28 '18

Wappalizer Chrome extension is what I use. Been addicted to looking up other people's tech stack

Scott Tadman • Apr 29 '18

That does look pretty neat. Link for the lazy: wappalyzer.com/download

Nick Taylor • Apr 25 '18

Cool stuff. Thanks for sharing Scott!

Ben Klein • Apr 27 '18 • Edited

Basics

git: Distributed version control system aimed at speed, data integrity, and support distributed, non-linear workflows.
gitflow: A git branching and release management strategy that helps developers keep track of features, hotfixes and releases in bigger software projects.

Languages

Ruby: A flexible scripting language with elegant syntax
EcmaScript 2015 / ES6: Current JavaScript standard.
SLIM: Template language whose goal is reduce the syntax to the essential parts without becoming cryptic.
SCSS: A scripting language that is interpreted into CSS
GraphQL: Powerful JSON like API.

Frontend

Vue.js 2
vue-class-components
Vuetify
vue-router
Vuex
Vuex-ORM A ORM for Vue
Vuex-ORM-Apollo Vuex-ORM plugin to sync against GraphQL API
Material Design Icons
Vee-Validate
jQuery: JavaScript toolbox for DOM traversal, event handling, animation and more
moment.js: Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates in JavaScript
wow.js

Assets / Packaging

Webpack and Babel with Webpacker
Yarn

Backend

Ruby on Rails 5 Ruby standard web framework.
Trailblazer 2 High-level architecture for Rails. We use Cells, Operations, ROAR
AuthLogic Lightweight authentication solution for Rails
Pundit Authorization library
ActiveAdmin: Ruby on Rails administration framework

Persistence

PostgreSQL: Most advanced open source DBMS

Ops

GitLab CI/CD
Heroku: PaaS/CaaS solution
Amazon S3: Cloud storage solution
Rollbar: Error Notifications and Tracking

Testing

RSpec BDD Framework for Ruby
Capybara
Chrome Headless
Jest

Misc

Google Analytics: User Tracking
UserReport: User Feedback

Rodrigo Nonose • Apr 26 '18

Frontend:

next.js
React
Styled Components
PostCSS
Jest
Cypress

Mobile:

React Native

Backend:

Elixir
PostgreSQL
Elasticsearch

Infrastructure:

Heroku

Others:

GraphQL (half RESTful, kind of migration to GraphQL)

It's all open source as well here

Frank Carr • Apr 25 '18

Primarily Microsoft .NET platform doing a little bit of everything from Windows services to WinForms to WPF to WCF to Web API to MVC (with some JQuery). Backends, mostly SQL Server and Oracle.

I've dabbled a bit in PHP, MySQL and Java but they have never been my primary focus.

Nick Taylor • Apr 25 '18

Probably feels good to move over to Web API from WCF I imagine? 😉. Thanks for sharing.

Frank Carr • Apr 27 '18

It is, although I'm currently dealing with a mixture of legacy WCF and new Web API.

BONNAURE Olivier • Apr 26 '18

Front-End: RiotJS or VueJS
Back-End : ArangoDB + Foxx and Foxxy
Sometimes I use Ruby on Rails also but softly moving to 100% JS stack

Also moving to Crystal Lang when speed is needed.

Ayyappa • Jul 1 '20

Whats your feedback on ArangoDB for high traffic applications?

Beatriz • Oct 15 '18

Thank you for posting this! I know this is a few months old and I'm late to the party. Just want to say thanks for everyone to place more context outside of a simple builtwith query. We're dabbling in posting our tech stack and more in a dev blog. This thread is helping give more validation to posting a tech stack.

Nick Taylor • Oct 15 '18

Glad to hear it's helping you out @bzdata .

Arnaud Morisset • Apr 26 '18

Working at Fewlines, we're huge fan of functional programming and we build API-first softwares.

We use Elm for most of our front-end and we build the back-end with Elixir (OTP/Plug/Poison/Cowboy and sometimes Phoenix). PostgreSQL handle our data, RabbitMQ manage our events and ELK for logs related stuff.

Our server infrastructure is mostly "cloud agnostic" and based on Kubernetes (with Helm) & Docker.

rhymes • Apr 25 '18

Front-end:

ES2018
Vue
Jest

Back-end:

Python (Flask and Django)
Ruby (Rails)
Go
PostgreSQL
Redis

Heroku, a bit of AWS (mostly S3 and Simple Notification Service), no Docker for now

Nick Taylor • Apr 25 '18

Thanks for sharing rhymes.

Abhinav Kumar • Apr 27 '18 • Edited

We have a few products, so the bird's eye view of our tech stack looks like this:

Backend

Python
DRF
PostgreSQL
Redis
MongoDB
Sentry (with sprinkles of Golang)

Frontend

ES6
AngularJS
React/Redux
Webpack (We are evaluating Vue for further projects)

Deployment

AWS
Docker/Docker Swarm
CircleCI

Rubén Martín Pozo • Apr 26 '18

Frontend:

React
Redux
Saga
Nodejs
Webpack

Mobile:

Native iOS (Swift and Kotlin)
Native Android (Java and Kotlin)

Back:

SpringBoot RESTful Microservices (Java and Kotlin)
MySql
MongoDB

CI/CD:

Jenkins pipelines

Infrastructure:

Docker Swarm + Docker Flow Proxy

Monitoring:

Prometheus + Grafana

Logging:

Logz.io

Matteo Joliveau • Apr 26 '18

I'm currently moving from a Java-based company to a Ruby one. So we can say my current stack is:

Backend:

Java 8 with Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Security, MVC, Data JPA)
PostgreSQL, Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server (depends on the project)

Frontend:

Angular 5
Vue

Our deployment method varies from project to project, the most interesting ones get to be deployed as Docker containers on our OpenShift Origin server.

At the new company they use:

Backend:

Ruby
Elixir
Some NodeJS if I understood correctly
Postgres
Redis

Frontend:

ReactJS
Some Vue
ERB for templating

Deployed on AWS ECS and some bare EC2 instances

Gabriel Mayta • Dec 6 '18 • Edited

Frontend:

LitHtml / React (Depend on the project)
Redux
Webpack 4
Webpack Dev Server
Babel 7
Sass
Polyfills
Es6
Npm scripts
Eslint / Typescript
Json Server and Fake Data
Yarn
Git

If I work with Angular I use their CLI and NGRX to handle the state.

Daniel • Apr 26 '18 • Edited

Front-end:

React/Redux
Lodash

Back-end:

Rails

Deployments and infrastucture:

PostgreSQL
Redis (for Sidekiq and ActionCable)
Heroku
Github
CircleCI

I like to keep it simple.

Peter Mbanugo • Apr 25 '18

Frontend:

JavaScript (VanillaJS, React, jQUery) - learning VueJS currently
ASP.NET MVC
npm scripts
PouchDB

Backend:
C# & ASP.NET Web API
Node
CouchDB
SQL Server
AWS & Heroku

Nick Taylor • Apr 25 '18

Thanks for sharing Peter. Do you do SSR for React? I know there was some support for this with ASP.NET MVC a couple years back.

Peter Mbanugo • Apr 26 '18

No I don't.

Adam Charron • Apr 27 '18

Frontend:

Typescript
React
redux
Sass
Jquery (legacy scripts)
Smarty and PHP (legacy views)
Jest
Webpack

Backend

PHP
MySQL (percona)
In house framework - Garden (open source)
Memcached
Sphinx

Evan Oman • Apr 25 '18 • Edited

Just for variety, here are some of the tools we use for our desktop apps and analysis:

Matlab
Java (some GUIs in Swing, mostly CLIs though)
C\C++ (lots of boost)
Docker for building native projects, eventually for containerizing the app itself
Gradle (for Java and Native Projects)
AsciiDoc for documentation
Some CI in Jenkins

jalpesh Vadgama • Apr 27 '18 • Edited

Front End:

TypeScript
Angular, React or Vue.js depends on the project
jQuery/ jQuery JavaScript
WebPack
Bootstrap or Material Design depends on the project

Back End:

ASP.NET Core/ASP.NET MVC C#
Node.js
Golang for writing APIs

Databases/Data Stores:

SQL Server, PostgreSQL or MYSQL depends on the project.
MongoDB, OrientDB or Azure CosmosDB depends on the project.

Tools and Editor:

Visual Studio Code
Visual Studio
Notepad++ for quick editing

Pim • Sep 20 '18

My current stack:
Client-side:

Knockout.js
npm (build, test runner and dependency management)
Jasmine
LESS

Server-side:

.NET Core (C#)
SQL Server/MariaDb/SQLite

Hosting:

Microsoft Azure

My desired stack:
Client-side:

same

Server-side:

Go
MariaDb

Hosting:

Digital Ocean or Heroku

Nick Taylor • Sep 20 '18

Cool stuff. Thanks for sharing Pim!

Vincent Nguyen • Apr 26 '18 • Edited

Frontend:

React JS
ES6
Javascript (jQuery)
Yeoman/Gulp/Brunch
Recompose / Apollo

Backend:

Ruby on Rails
Elixir / Umbrella / OTP
PostgreSQL/Redis
GraphQL
Rest API

Infrastructure

Capistrano / Distillery
Heroku
AWS
Alibaba Cloud
Terraform / Packer
Docker / Kubernetes
CI/CD

Rinzler • Apr 26 '18 • Edited

Front-end:

jQuery
Materialize CSS
SasS
NPM
Gulp
Apache
Amazon Linux

Back-end:

Python 3
Django Framework
MongoDB
Nginx
uWSGI
Gunicorn
Amazon Linux
PHP(legacy)
MySQL(legacy)
Apache(legacy)

All hosted by AWS

Sam Ferree • Apr 26 '18

Frontend: Angular, Razor with vanilla JS, Patiently waiting for Blazor
Backend: .Net Core, C#, PostgreSQL, looking forward to trying out CosmosDB

Sten • Apr 26 '18

Do you run your own Jenkins server or are you using Cloudbees? I'm curious to know what you're building too with a mix of Scala, Python and Node in the backend.

Nick Taylor • Apr 26 '18

Not sure for Jenkins. I'll ask. For the other stuff, Node, Scala and Python for our Conversational Marketing Cloud Platform.

Sten • Apr 26 '18

I was suspecting you did some AI stuff when I saw Python in the mix. But perhaps it's for something else. Looks cool!

Nick Taylor • Apr 26 '18 • Edited

No, you're right. It's for AI. Our platform uses AI.

TehomCD • Apr 27 '18

Frontend:

jQuery
Bootstrap

Backend:

Python (Django/Twisted)
SQLite

Infrastructure:

Linode

Pim • Sep 20 '18 • Edited

My current stack:
Client-side:

Knockout.js
npm (build, test runner and dependency management)
Jasmine
LESS

Server-side:

.NET Core (C#)
SQL Server/MariaDb/SQLite

Hosting:

Microsoft Azure

My desired stack:
Client-side:

same

Server-side:

Go
MariaDb

Hosting:

Digital Ocean or Heroku

Guido Vizoso • Apr 26 '18

Front end:
-Javascript
-React (Native for mobile)
-Vue
-SASS
-Webpack

Back end:
-Node
-Mongo db
-IBM Cloud

Infrastructure:
-Heroku
-IBM Cloud

Brian Kephart • Apr 27 '18

Heroku/Postgres/Rails/Webpacker/Bootstrap. About to add a new section with a different frontend, maybe Stimulus/Tailwind.

Erhan Kılıç • Apr 25 '18

Frontend:

1) Javascript
2) Jquery
3) AngularJs

Backend:

1) Php
2) NodeJs

Nick Taylor • Apr 25 '18

Thanks for sharing Erhan.

Sean Walker • Apr 26 '18

Frontend:

jQuery
Javascript

Backend:

Clojure
Postgres

Deployments:

Linode
git post-receive hook

Ousseynou Diop • Dec 3 '18

My stack lokks like This

Front-End

Bootstrap
Jquery
Ajax

Back-End

Python(Django)
Postgresql
Sqlite3

Deployement

Bitbucket
Obambu vps hosting

Muhammad Arslan Aslam • Jul 23 '18

I work at a Startup and here's our tech stack:

Front-end

. React.js
. Bootstrap
. npm scripts
. ES6
. WordPress / PHP

Back-end

. Python
. Google Cloud
. Big Query
. NoSQL

Nick Taylor • Jul 23 '18

Thanks for sharing Muhammad!

Hasse R. Hansen • Apr 29 '18

Mainly websites built with Drupal 7/8 - with gulp/yarn/sass - with MySQL backen. Cache is with memcached or Redis . Solr used for external search. Deployment done with drush and deployotron.