Startup stack

tl;dr - Facebook’s Open Source is incredible.

Frontend

• TypeScript as the language
• React as the UI framework
• Relay as the GraphQL client
• Ant Design as the design system
• React Router for page routing
• Styled Components for CSS-in-JS
• Chart.js for charting
• Vite as build

Backend

• TypeScript as the language
• node.js as the runtime
• NestJS as the framework
• Searchkit for searching, pagination, sorting, etc
• DataLoader for batch loading of data
• Prisma for relational persistence
• Elasticsearch for search
• CASL for authorization

API

• GraphQL
• OpenAPI for external REST APIs
• Protocol Buffers for RPC

Infra

• AWS
• Elasticsearch
• Sentry for error handling

Formatting & Linting

• Eslint
• Prettier

Other tools

• WebStorm (for refactoring support)
• TablePlus
• Docker