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Kent C. Dodds - The Epic Stack - React Live 2023
Explore the Epic Stack, a comprehensive project starter for building web apps, featuring React, TypeScript, and more, with a focus on simplicity, ease of use, and minimizing complexity.
- The Epic Stack is an opinionated project starter and reference for building web applications, aiming to reduce decisions and complexity.
- React is the chosen framework, and the author emphasizes it’s the best framework to use in an industry dominated by other React speakers.
- The author discusses the struggles with decision-making in web development, comparing it to building a house with too many ways to do the same thing.
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Three guiding principles are highlighted:
- Limit the number of services you need
- Provide type-safe, progressively enhanced forms
- Minimize setup complexity
- Fly.io is recommended for serverless and cloud-based infrastructure
- TypeScript is highly recommended
- Express and Prisma are included as part of the Epic Stack for simplicity and ease of use
- Conform and Zod are recommended for strong typing and validation
- The importance of having a clear path to adaptation and minimizing the complexity of change are emphasized
- Contributions are invited to improve the Epic Stack, focusing on examples and helping to address questions and problems