Help me optimize my stack
Backend: Express
Frontend: Create React App
CSS: Material-UI
Auth: Firebase
Database: Postgres (with knex)
Hosting: Heroku
Most of what I build is fairly lightweight and I could probably use other technologies that are faster to bootstrap with. What would you change to make it faster?
This seems fine, although I'd consider Next.js if you care about SEO/server-rendering.
It sounds like your stack is fine. I'd say the Firebase is probably going to be the biggest bottleneck (both in terms of cost and constraints).
If I were you, I'd spend your time figuring out what the things blocking your product from getting out into the world are. From my perspective, nothing in your stack right now should be in the way of that.
This comment was deleted 5 years ago