• Framework: Next.js
• UI: ShadCN + TailwindCSS
• Database: MongoDB (with Drizzle ORM)

1. Query Management

   • TanStack Query (React Query) – Best for API data fetching, caching, and synchronization.

2. State Management

   • Zustand – Simple, scalable, and lightweight. (Lightweight global state)

3. Caching

   • Client-Side: TanStack Query – Caching for API requests. (Automatic query caching)
   • Server-Side: Redis – For backend caching (Rate limiting + session storage).

4. Performance Optimizations

   • Lodash debounce: API middleware using lodash.throttle
   • React-use: Custom useDebounce hook. (UI Interactions)

5. API Management

   • Hono.dev – Lightweight, fast, works well with Edge and Serverless environments.
   • Validation: Zod
   • Documentation: Swagger UI auto-generation

6. Authentication & Authorization

   • BetterAuth – Better Auth Alternate (npm add better-auth)
   • Helmet.js – Adds security headers.

7. File Uploads & Storage

   • AWS S3
   • UploadThing – Easy file uploads for Next.js
   • Sharp.js – For image processing and optimization

8. CI/CD Pipelines

   • GitHub Actions – Automate testing, linting, and deployment
   • Docker – For containerization (if needed)

9. Logging & Monitoring

   • Pino / Winston – Fast logging for backend
   • Sentry – Error tracking for both frontend and backend
   • Logtail – Cloud-based logging

10. Documentation & Developer Experience

    • just-the-docs – For project structure documentation
    • Swagger (for Hono) – API documentation
    • ESLint + Prettier + Husky – Code linting and formatting

11. Testing Setup

    • Jest + React Testing Library – For unit and integration tests
    • Cypress / Playwright – For end-to-end testing

being done parallely at wstack-docs