IDOL Stack
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Idol -- Indie Developers' Opinionated Libraries
- Use boring technologies
- Bootstrap
- Deliver day 1
- Huge focus on an international-first approach
- HTTP content negotiation
- International SEO built-in (hreflang)
- Subpath routing
- International payments built-in (PayPal + Toss)
- Impact over Performance
- Business Performance over Technical Performance
- Day One Deploy
- Perfect for Indie Developers
Current Selections
Approach 1
- Redwood, Render, Clerk, Chakra, Inlang + Across the Sprachraums, GitHub CI/CD
- i18n with Redwood
Pro
- ORM built-in
- Takes care of GraphQL fuzz
Con
- Their i18n sucks. Especially setting up subpath routing for Redwood.
- Non-GPT-able, since v1 came out mid 2022
Approach 2
Pro
- Most resources
Good i18n supportturns out Next 13 removed it and introduced a more manual one
Con
- Need to set up the integration
- Sometimes lack of a proper back-end sucks
Conclusion
After cracking i18n with Redwood, decided with approach 1
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