PostgreSQL, PostgREST & Svelte are a bliss to develop with! - Web GMA R&D

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2021-08-04 12:00:10

The combination of svelte + postgrest enables rapid prototyping while reducing boilerplate, helps minimize the mental footprint, and is straightforward to grasp, all while being surprisingly flexible.

In this text I’d like to describe the reasoning and road taken to reach the tech stack that I grew to adopt, explain the choices made and suggest who in particular may benefit from using this combination of technologies.

I’ve been programming web sites & apps since 2002 or so, hitting the road with PHP4. What follows are my rather personal observations on how things went from that point to the present in web development.

Back then, things were converging around the MVC pattern . Since the client was (mostly) static content, changes to which involved page refreshes, it was sufficient to organize user actions, data flow, business logic and what the user ended up seeing in a way that made sense.

In those rather early days, no specializations existed in web development. Since the field was young and rather narrow, *everyone* was a full-stack engineer.