As one of the FutureSpace founders, I believe in empowering our developers with the right knowledge and skills to build and ship cutting-edge software products. Our tech stack is carefully curated to leverage the power of modern web development technologies, and I am committed to providing a comprehensive learning path for our team.
Tailwind CSS is a utility-first CSS framework that allows for rapid UI development. By leveraging pre-defined utility classes, developers can quickly build responsive and visually appealing user interfaces without the need for extensive custom CSS.
Why Tailwind CSS?
- Rapid prototyping: Tailwind CSS enables developers to quickly style components and build UIs without writing CSS from scratch.
- Consistent design system: By utilizing the utility classes, Tailwind CSS promotes a consistent design system across the entire application.
- Responsive design: Tailwind CSS provides built-in responsive utilities, making it easier to create responsive layouts and interfaces.
- Customization: While leveraging utility classes, Tailwind CSS also offers flexibility for customization and extension when needed.
- Official Tailwind CSS Documentation
- Tailwind CSS Screencasts
- Tailwind CSS: From Zero to Production (YouTube)
Next.js is a React framework that enables server-side rendering, static site generation, and API routes. By combining Next.js with React, developers can build high-performance, SEO-friendly, and user-friendly web applications.
Why Next.js and React?
- Server-side rendering (SSR): Next.js supports server-side rendering, which improves initial load times and enhances SEO capabilities.
- Static site generation (SSG): With Next.js, developers can pre-render pages at build time, resulting in faster load times and improved performance.
- API routes: Next.js provides a built-in solution for creating API routes, simplifying the process of building and consuming APIs within the same application.
- React ecosystem: Next.js leverages the powerful React ecosystem, allowing developers to take advantage of the vast collection of React libraries and tools.
Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine, enabling developers to use JavaScript for server-side scripting and building scalable network applications.
Why Node.js?
- Event-driven, non-blocking I/O model: Node.js follows an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model, making it efficient and suitable for building highly scalable network applications.
- JavaScript everywhere: By using JavaScript for both client-side and server-side development, developers can leverage their existing JavaScript knowledge and share code between the front-end and back-end.
- Rich ecosystem: Node.js has a vast ecosystem of packages and libraries, offering solutions for various tasks and requirements.
- Official Node.js Documentation
- Node.js Tutorial for Beginners (YouTube)
- The Node.js Event Loop and Non-Blocking I/O
Express.js is a minimal and flexible Node.js web application framework that provides a robust set of features for building web applications and APIs.
Why Express.js?
- Simplicity: Express.js provides a minimalistic and straightforward approach to building web applications and APIs.
- Middleware support: Express.js supports a robust middleware system, allowing developers to add functionality and handle various aspects of the request-response cycle.
- Routing: Express.js offers a powerful routing system for handling HTTP requests and defining routes for different parts of the application.
- Ecosystem: Express.js has a large and active ecosystem, with numerous middleware and plugins available for various use cases.
- Official Express.js Documentation
- Express.js Crash Course (YouTube)
- Building RESTful APIs with Express.js (YouTube)
At FutureSpace, we primarily work with two database technologies: PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
PostgreSQL is a powerful open-source relational database management system (RDBMS) that supports advanced features like transactions, concurrency control, and SQL compliance.
Why PostgreSQL?
- Reliability and data integrity: PostgreSQL is known for its robust ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) compliance, ensuring data integrity and reliability.
- Advanced features: PostgreSQL offers advanced features like table inheritance, Views, foreign data wrappers, and more.
- SQL compliance: PostgreSQL is SQL-compliant, making it easy for developers with SQL experience to work with the database.
- Open-source and community support: PostgreSQL is an open-source project with a large and active community, ensuring ongoing development and support.
MongoDB is a popular NoSQL document-oriented database that stores data in flexible, JSON-like documents, providing high performance, scalability, and flexibility.
Why MongoDB?
- Scalability and flexibility: MongoDB's document-oriented data model allows for easy data representation and flexibility in handling varying data structures.
- High performance: MongoDB's architecture and indexing capabilities provide high performance for read and write operations, making it suitable for high-throughput applications.
- Horizontal scaling: MongoDB supports horizontal scaling through sharding, allowing for seamless distribution of data across multiple servers.
- Rich query language: MongoDB's query language supports powerful querying capabilities, including ad-hoc queries, indexing, and aggregation.
- Official PostgreSQL Documentation
- PostgreSQL Tutorial for Beginners (YouTube)
- SQL Basics for PostgreSQL (YouTube)
- Official MongoDB Documentation
- MongoDB Crash Course (YouTube)
- MongoDB Data Modeling (YouTube)
In addition to our core tech stack, our developers need to have a solid understanding of Linux and Bash scripting for automation purposes. This knowledge is crucial for streamlining development workflows, deploying applications, and managing server environments.
- Understanding the Linux file system, permissions, and basic commands
- Managing users, groups, and file ownership
- Working with directories and file manipulation
- Monitoring system resources and processes
- Writing scripts to automate repetitive tasks and system administration
- Utilizing control structures, variables, and functions
- Implementing conditional statements and loops
- Managing packages and software installations
- Configuring and managing services (e.g., Apache, Nginx, PostgreSQL)
- Automating system backups and maintenance tasks
- Monitoring system logs and troubleshooting issues
- Linux Command Line Basics (YouTube)
- Bash Scripting Tutorial for Beginners (YouTube)
- Linux System Administration Essentials (YouTube)
This documentation was created by
- Steve Tom