The stack and tools we use in 2026

A Vue meta-framework for production. SSR, SSG, ISR, API routes and layers. The foundation of all our frontends.

A progressive Node framework with modular DI, guards and interceptors. An opinionated yet flexible architecture. Our default backend.

A robust relational database. JSONB, full-text search, partitioning and logical replication. It never lets us down.

An in-memory store for caching, sessions, pub/sub and BullMQ queues. Essential for workers.

Job queues on Redis. Retries, delays, priorities, rate limiting and a dashboard. We use it for all asynchronous work.

A framework for building LLM applications. Agents, tools, chains, memory and RAG. The AI layer in our systems.

Payment processing, subscriptions, webhooks and Connect. A comprehensive, well-documented payment integration.

Object storage for files, backups and static assets. S3-compatible with AWS or self-hosted with MinIO.

A JavaScript/TypeScript linter with flat config. Integrated into CI to block pull requests with errors.

An opinionated code formatter. No more style debates in code reviews.

A Jest-compatible test runner that is faster and ESM-native. Integrated coverage for unit and integration tests.

Cross-browser end-to-end testing. Parallel execution, traces and screenshots. We use it for post-deployment smoke tests.

Containers for development and production. Multi-stage builds, Compose locally, Swarm or Kubernetes in production.

CI/CD pipelines integrated with GitHub. Automated linting, testing, builds and deployment on every push.

TypeScript-first schema validation. We use it for DTOs, forms, environment configuration and API responses.

A TypeScript ORM with type safety and migrations. An alternative to TypeORM or Drizzle when developer experience matters.

An abstraction over LLMs: chains, agents, tools, memory and RAG. For building complex AI systems.

The official SDK for GPT-4o, o1, embeddings, Whisper and DALL-E. Streaming, function calling and vision.

The Claude SDK. A 200k context window, tool use and vision. An alternative to OpenAI with stronger reasoning.

A runtime for local models. Llama, Mistral and Qwen. On-premise AI without sending data elsewhere.

A high-throughput inference server for open-source LLMs. PagedAttention and continuous batching.

Declarative programming for LLMs. Automatically optimises prompts and compiles to reproducible code.

The official Vue 3 documentation. Composition API, reactivity, Suspense and Teleport. Excellent documentation for a JavaScript framework.

Free courses from Nuxt Labs. From the basics to deployment, modules and layers.

The official TypeScript reference. Generics, conditional types, template literals and utility types.

A curated collection of NestJS resources: modules, boilerplates, tutorials and patterns.

A complete PostgreSQL tutorial: from the basics to CTEs, window functions, partitioning and tuning.

Free courses on NLP, transformers, fine-tuning and model deployment. From the basics to production.

Premium Vue/Nuxt components with consistent design. Ready-to-use dashboards, landing pages and documentation.

Copy-and-paste React/Vue components. Accessible, themeable and without dependency lock-in.

The official NestJS CLI. Generate modules, controllers, services and DTOs with one command. Complete scaffolding.

Define multi-container environments. PostgreSQL, Redis and your app in one file. Reproducible on any machine.

A build system for JavaScript/TypeScript monorepos. Build caching, parallel execution and remote caching. For growing teams.

A code generator with EJS templates. We use it to create entities, services and DTOs without writing boilerplate.