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Django, doit, tailwind, vuejs with vite, postgres, redis, poetry, git and ubuntu.

I've tried many alternatives but every time things are just slower to dev.

This stack has a great balance between integration and flexibility. The only things that matches the django ecosystem is the rail/symfony ones, but ruby and php outside the web are limited. Js has diversity but integration is seriously lacking. Anything else is too low level which is not a good cost/benefit ratio for me.

Vite, vue and tailwind makes front dev fun again, postgres and redis can deal with everything without tuning up to millions of users and ubuntu and git are just easier to find tutorials for.

The impact is huge as I can actually focus on my value proposition for my client. They can ask me to add a cms, a weird service auth or some messed up ftp pdf generation workflow and I can leverage existing libs 80% of the way, with just enough custom to charge premium.

I end up twice faster, 3 times cheapers than my competition and yet my hour billing is very good and my stress at sea level.



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