001 — Default to Stacktion

All Play w/ Ryan Hefner

On this episodes I dig into getting back into action and picking a stack to base the action on. In the past, I have built my products and prototypes in Laravel, using an SPA—typically built in React—for the majority of stuff, and I go into all the pros, and a few of the cons, I have experienced with that setup along the way.

Well, now the year is 2024 and as easy as it would be go back to that trusty old cocktail of sorts, I want to push myself to explore something new. I go into how I have been structuring my latest work utilizing Nx for the monorepo setup, and primarily using React + Next for the majority of the client apps.

I love the DX surrounding some of these newer hosting platforms, allowing for instant previews of branches that are in the works, and being able to have as many of those up and running, and viewable, while working on a project. That coupled with the fact that I haven't been working on PHP for the last 4+ years and all the changes that have been going on, in both PHP and Laravel, I feel a little behind the curve in that ecosystem, and honestly I really just like working in Javascript and not having to deal with the context switching between PHP and Javascript.

So, with all that said, I am not wasting any more time on the debate and am going to go all-in—at least on this first project—on the all Javascript setup, utilizing Nx to manage the monorepo for the project. React + Next for both the marketing site and app, which will be two separate apps deployed on the same push, utilizing shared libraries within the repo. And, will be trying out NestJS for the API, because—for a number of reasons—I think that is the way to go vs. utilizing API routes via Next to try to accomplish the external API.

References

• Laravel
• Stripe
• Lemon Squeezy
• Paddle
• Laravel Pulse (the one I couldn't think of)
• Laravel Reverb
• Next
• Vercel
• Render
• Netlify
• Laravel Shift
• Nx
• NestJS

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