As far as your backend design goes it really depends on your scaling needs and how much of a purist you want to be about keeping your dependencies open source.

As far as your backend design goes it really depends on your scaling needs and how much of a purist you want to be about keeping your dependencies open source. If I was just trying to scratch a personal itch I would write it as a Typescript w/ Apollo GraphQL hooked up to a managed Postgres and running on a serverless platform like AWS Lambda. I’d probably write the frontend in React with some kind of state management library.