Dave Mackey

I'm in the preparation stages of building and launching a new web application. I'm looking at using @Supabase for the backend and trying to decide on what to use for the front-end. My goal is to build this quickly (hackathon style). I want to develop an aesthetically pleasing front-end but value speed (development and performance) over shiny. I have experience with React and Vue. I'm not sure that either is necessary although some of the prebuilt component libraries make them attractive. I haven't worked with htmx, but there is a lot of buzz around it. On the other hand, I am unaware of any pre-built component libraries for it... Bootstrap is also a faithful, if not as popular, option. I haven't worked with it recently but it worked fairly well in the past. Probably one of the bigger deals for this front-end is the ability to have fairly robust out-of-the-box data display, search, and editing functionality. Any thoughts, suggestions are appreciated!

Or is experience/skills more sought after? For example, I know a few software engineers who don't have a college degree and learned from a bootcamp or were self-taught, but sometimes struggle on the job with things they didn't learn. But is it better to go to university for this? What do you think?

Personally, I'll be traveling to Brazil and I'll have plenty of time to work on my Project Pastick. So my main objective is to have a MVP opened to b ta testers. Yours ?