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In 2023, I've playing with a lot of tech stack and also framework has incrementally increasing over the year, some of the them are very interesting to try out. But here I'm going to talk about stack that I've been using in production both in my full time job and side project. I will categorize into two main category.

at workplace

I started at Okoone in 2023 as a Software Engineer, specifically I do front-end work. so Angular is the main framework we used, as it very mature, stable, enterprise ready and backed by the google. Before, nuxt was a framework I used in the old company to build some ssr website. Coming from a vue kind of functional way, to me is a very big different which I have to learn everything from the ground again by reading documentation and learn from the project as well. It's been a year now since I started to use Angular and I would say that the experience was not so bad, as I'm very comfortable writing stuff in Angular currently and also comfortable with the project. It was hard at first because the project is very big and there is a lot of stuff that has been done and super abstraction which was hard to get the head around. But I learned a lot from the project because there are a set of rule, guideline, best practice and quality of code. I thought Angular was never be fun to work with because it's very big framework, confusing API, and a big bundle ship to the production. But it turned out very fun to work with it. We can do a lot of thing with it, easy and convenient to work with because of its ecosystem, such as its CDK, allow us to build a reusable UI component. routing, form is great thing to work with in Angular. In my opinion, Angular has become better as they have brought the signal, a new reactivity system, vite & esbuild as a build tool, making development more faster, and building for production faster, better DX with a new @if, @for, @defer and a lot of stuff.

my takeway

  • great framework
  • great ecosystem
  • suitable for any kind of project, especially for big, complex project
  • a lot of thing built-in
  • great for team

side project & learning

Frontend Stack

SvelteKit is used in my side project, basically this website is using SvelteKit V1. It is one of the best meta framework in the javascript community that I've been using it. The route file based, providing such an amazing DX, very light weight, typescript support and ready for production. It offers a ton of feature such as, form action, data fetching, SSR & CSR & SSG, state management and great DX.

I've also used solid to build some dashboard, it is very great framework, light weight and performance as well. Reactivity is great, back by the *signal, very powerful. I will use it more and deep dive into the framework more in 2024. SolidStart is also coming on the way too, very excited.

Backend Stack

go aka Golang, I've used go and fiber to build some api, it is fast and performance and will deep dive more in 2024. There are a lot of cool stuff in languages.

Other thing

  • vercel is my favorite platform to deploy the front-end.
  • supabase well, i store all my blog post in there, super great.
  • cloudflare for managing domain, dns and stuff.