I know this depends quite a bit on the application, but is there a general stack you use that you know you can knock out something quickly and deploy on the cheap?
- Django if I need authentication and something more long-term that won't change much.<p>- Nextjs if I need to do some quick demo or test something and having a frontend. (Also, I haven't tried the authentication with Nextjs, it might be as easy to use as the one Django provides).<p>- Astro/Vitepress for online documentation and static sites (I am testing both for small projects).
Laravel. I don't even like PHP, but I will always bootstrap something with Laravel. It's just too easy.<p>I'm reading up Elixir/Phoenix to spice things up though.
I’m out of the game but I’d use Django. Not sure the simplest hosting these days.<p>Is there any kind of database service for no setup, tuning, or maintenance?
Next.js on Vercel<p>A complete frontend+backend page at /my_path with a file at /my_path/page.tsx with ~20 lines in a single file that handles backend request, DB query, backend response, frontend html templating and client-side JS interactivity.