People agonize over picking a tech stack way more than they need to. The truth is, any of the big frameworks can build the apps you want to build — the real question is which one matches your goals and has people who can teach it well. This lesson gives you a quick, honest tour so you can stop second-guessing and start building.
We’ll cover the four most common stacks you’ll hear mentioned, touch on a few others you might run into, and end with where I land and why the rest of this curriculum goes the direction it does.
- The four big names: Rails, Laravel, Django, and Next.js
- Other frameworks you might encounter and what they’re used for
- The two questions that actually matter when picking a stack
- Why I build with Rails, and what that means for the rest of the curriculum