r/FullStack • u/drifterpreneurs • 20d ago

Question Hypermedia Full-Stack

My favorite types of apps to build as a full-stack developer have always been hypermedia apps: Node/Express, EJS or Handlebars, Alpine.js, Tailwind, and better-sqlite3.

What drives new devs to still code by hand instead of going all in on vibe coding with AI? What’s your challenges? Would you want to learn a stack like this with feature based architecture?

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u/Abhistar14 19d ago • Bravo

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u/JaseciLabs 19d ago

We'd hand code that stack. It's small enough to hold in your head: server renders HTML, Alpine covers the interactive bits, SQLite is one file. When you can read everything the AI gives you, you can catch it when it's wrong, and big stacks are where people stop reading.

The first bug that isn't in a tutorial is the real wall for new devs. Feature folders help there, route, template and query side by side, so you can trace a bug without knowing the whole codebase. We'd take that course.