IDOL Stack

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

• Next.js, Supabase DB, Supabase Auth, Supabase Storage, CloudFlare, Chakra

Pro

• Most resources
• Good i18n support turns 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