10 Best Web Development Stacks
Tags: webdev, techstack, beginners, programming
Published: 2023-11-02 17:49:35


A Web development stack or tech stack consists of a set of web frameworks, programming languages, servers, and databases that when combined help in producing seamless, fully-fledged web applications. Choosing the right stack is crucial because this determines the speed, security, scalability, and overall efficiency of your app.

**Here are the best and most popular tech stacks:**

#### 1. MERN STACK


![####mern stack photo](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/dpe7pvxbqj8dx4gnj49q.png)

**This stack consists of:**

- MongoDB: NoSQL database
- ExpressJs: A nodeJs backend framework
- React: A frontend Javascript library
- NodeJs: Javascript runtime-environment

#### 2. MEAN STACK


![####Mean stack](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/3kxdtmrxfouwj09hruw8.jpg)

This stack is quite similar to MERN except that it uses Angular instead of React.
**Technologies:**

- MongoDB: NoSQL database;
- ExpressJs: A nodeJs backend framework
- Angular: A frontend Javascript library
- NodeJs: Javascript runtime-environment

#### 3. LAMP STACK


![####lamp stack](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/gcq33lim8phz10yehcmb.png)
- Linux: Open-source operating system
- Apache: Free and open source HTTP web server
- MySQL: Relational database Management System
- PHP: Backend language

#### 4. SERN STACK


![####sern stack](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/9qong5zji0k1e9wygxuz.jpeg)
- SQL: Language of relational databases
- ExpressJs
- React
- NodeJs

#### 5. Vue.js STACK


![####vuejs stack photo](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/7rbb1auhubgz3q7piqrj.jpg)
- Vuejs: A frontend javascript framework
- NodeJs
- MongoDB
- ExpressJs

#### 6. SERVERLESS STACK


![######serverless stack photo](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/yeyq8wckdh2dztpulz9f.png)

- AWS lambda: According to Amazon, is an event-driven serverless computing platform provided by Amazon
- API Gateway: As per Nginx, it receives and directs client API requests, effectively routing them to the relevant Microservice using techniques such as request routing, composition, and protocol translation.
- DynamoDB: NoSQL database by Amazon designed to run high performance
  applications at any scale
- React: Frontend library

#### 7. ASP.NET STACK


![######Asp.net stack](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/p9m4a3zia6tmng1aj4uc.jpg)
- ASP.Net: Microsoft framework for building web apps with .NET and C#
- C#: programming language
- SQL Server: Relational database

#### 8. JAVA STACK

![######java stack](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/y2esxhi9xcr28q6jug8b.png)

- Java: Programming language
- Spring boot: Java framework
- MySQL/PostgreSQL: Relational Databases

#### 9.Ruby on Rails

![######Ruby on rails stack](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/7g1zgj8zsk2op9run75r.png)

- Ruby: programming language
- Rails: Ruby Framework
- SQLite: C library that has a server and database

#### 10. JAMstack


![######jam stack photo](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/zjl6ew1rb304jop7w0ba.jpg)

- Javascript: programming language
- API: Application Programming Interface
- Markup: Generated by static site generators like Jekyll, Gatsby, etc

  **In conclusion**
  The choice of a tech stack really boils down to what you want to achieve. Some of the factors to consider are scalability, security, cost and availability of integration tools, and ease of solving a problem.