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If you ever scale up, you might find it difficult for recruiting for that stack, ironically > The main application uses React with Tailwind on the frontend, C#
by yieldcrv 3y ago
If you ever scale up, you might find it difficult for recruiting for that stack, ironically
> The main application uses React with Tailwind on the frontend, C# on the backend
I'm curious what about your experience gave you that stack? I'm sure it works fine, but the "not JS backend" people are usually stuck in older frontend frameworks, and the JS everything world has Next.js and various things to power both the frontend and backend together
- scrapcode 3y agoBoth C# (ASP.NET Core) and React consistently rank pretty high up in the Stack Overflow Developer Survey frameworks section, with both being in the top 5 for 2023 [0]. [0] https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-admired-and-desired-web-frameworks-and-technologies https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-admired-and-de...
- romanhn 3y agoIt was a mix of what I already knew (.NET) and what I wanted to learn (React). I love C# as a language and it works just fine with whatever frontend you throw at it (it's just an API after all). I wouldn't touch a Microsoft frontend framework with a ten-foot pole.
- yieldcrv 3y agoyeah, itll be a high performant API server as C#
- Pannoniae 3y agoHave you ever heard of "making people learn tools"? Not every job has to be the cookie-cutter node/react stack... you can also train people to use your stack.
- yieldcrv 3y agotell that to employers and what they tell recruiters about needing someone to “hit the ground running” despite having the job open for 6 months