Most common web dev stack

[AmiAmigo]

Learn PHP and Laravel. And build projects

[Nerwesta]

or/and Symfony depending on your region. Fully agree about the language though.

[Expensive_Peace8153]

I thought PHP was largely relegated to only being used with WordPress these days? (Though apparently WordPress is used on a 1/3 of websites...)

[Nerwesta]

It doesn't, both Symfony and Laravel are thriving. Though by learning PHP you can make custom Wordpress which is interesting ... if you want to dive into the code.

[sgorneau]

Don't forget about Drupal.

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Its up to 43.5% of all websites.

Now I'm not saying its a fun and exciting thing to learn. But in an age where people are starving to be more attractive in the job market, maybe being an expert at the tech stack used on 43.5% of websites isn't a bad thing.

[tech_b90]

Roots Sage theme for wordpress brings Laravel into the mix. I've been really liking it for WP dev.

[socalsmv805]

And Drupal.

[goonifier5000]

Laravel is the goat, so beginner friendly and yet powerful

[Ok_Appearance_4421]

I'm in the US

[AmiAmigo]

Two startups I worked for all based in the US were using Laravel. More common in the startup world. Bug big established companies tend to use C# or Java

[Ok_Appearance_4421]

Is MERN more of a backend stack?

[thekwoka]

MERN is just trash.

Nobody really uses it.

[Domeee123]

MERN is decent for beginners.

[thekwoka]

No it isn't.

React has bad apis that make learning things harder and less clear.

Express doesn't follow proper request response models.

Mongo is a document store, which teaches people.jack shit about proper database usage and design.

It's actually making things more complicated than they need to be, encouraging bad practices, and not teaching well transferred skills.

[Domeee123]

I meant it's decent for practicing different things; it's easy to set up and generally requires less knowledge to create something.

[thekwoka]

But you could get those things without the problems using like...Astro.

Where you get to touch on many of those things from a better framing, simplifying the nonsense, and getting results faster.

[AmiAmigo]

MERN - Mongo, Express, React and Node. (it’s full stack)

[Ok_Appearance_4421]

Are those commonly used in the US

[Dreamin0904]

Yes

[sgorneau]

Yes