Picking The Right Stack In 2024

I get asked a lot about what tools people should use. From Flutter to React (Native) to Angular to Svelte to Go to Rust to NextJS to Remix to Vite...there's a lot nowadays.

Hope this video helps you pick correctly

S/O Ph4se0n3 for the awesome edit 🙏

[keenanafield]

"If you want to build confidence, you can't borrow mine."
So pointed and true. Love it!
You build confidence through doing.

[ThePouetman]

The weird thing is that companies want developers that are experienced in their tech stack and will favor someone who already has experience. I got my job because I have experience with Vue and when I asked about helping a team that was using react my manager's first answer was "But you're a Vue dev?". In this context it does matter what you pick

[pranitmane]

Web dev isn't complicated, the landscape is.

[kevharv]

I think it’s also important to draw a distinction between choosing things for side projects and learning vs making architecture decisions for real products. These decisions are important in the latter.

[mintx]

Thanks! Picking COBOL right now! CHAD stack let's go!

[jack.smith]

I'm going to build my next web app with Microsoft Access as the database, jQuery for the frontend and Swift on the backend. It's going to be great. Thanks!

[hidayahapriliansyah]

As a beginner in web development, this video gives me confident to be more trust and throwing out all the worries. Just pick something. Thanks for the advice, Theo!

[garrettdarnell]

Every app I've ever worked on had at least one technology in it's stack that was less than optimal for the use case. It's never resulted in the failure of the product or company, but it did result in me having a much better understanding of the tech, it's limitations, and when I might want to use it again, and when not to. Great vid

[thegreat.laflame]

I hope the JavaScript ecosystem doesn't release and framework after this video, and then call it the future of web development.

[digitalbuugle]

Hats off to you for turning “I have no advice” into a nearly 4-minute video, all while trying to prove that no advice is actually the best advice! Nothing like the classic, “Don’t ask me what tools to use; just wing it and hope for the best!” approach. Who needs a roadmap when you can wander aimlessly, right?

[robertminardi]

Best answer possible. It builds muscles picking stuff, but also builds confidence that you know what your talking about because you've failed and succeeded, and you know why that happened. You can then map those successes and failures to future projects. Everyone wants to know what tech stack they need to become a "senior developer".
No tech stack will make you a senior dev. PERIOD! THIS is how you become one. No shortcuts!

[minikame]

theo: my audience skews heavily senior
also theo: holy fuck my audience's decision paralysis

[Amaraticando]

This video gave me the confidence boost to learn jQuery as my frontend framework.

[a.m.]

Strong disclaimer about this video: the advice given by this guy is only valid in the context of LEARNING not in the context of job search. For the latter, you don't decide what to learn, the industry demand determines that.

[RiceCodes]

Great advice! I got launched into learning to code by building an app in Scratch. The school I teach at uses an app to manage dismissal, but the old one stopped working at the beginning of last year. I had just been teaching the kids coding in Scratch and I knew exactly how I could code an equivalent app in Scratch (using the cloud variables meant for high scores for the "backend"). It is super hacky, but we've used it successfully for 1.5 years (and dismissal is faster than it used to be)! Since then I've begun to actually learn web development and I'm 95% done with a React/Firebase replacement. I've been doubting that stack choice a bit, so this video came at just the right time!

[devdatkumar]

"It's way more important that you pick something, than it is that you pick the right thing!" ❤

[tr.j]

So, what technology should I start with?

[shrtcrt]

The big issue today is people focus on frameworks but tend to miss the how and why’s of development. I respect the fact that you interviewed on how they solve problems, not what the tools are. I explain it to people using a house building analogy, “An architect learns how to build and design a house, if they use wood, steel, brick etc, those are tools they add later. “

[EthanStandel]

This rant could be the best possible share on so many Reddit threads

[AlexandruVoda]

Completely agree, especially for the context you presented. I would add though that choosing a tech stack is not only a tech choice, it is also a business choice. Which tech stack is cheaper to host, cheaper and easier to hire for, etc.