• Astro, because it can be deployed on a “wide range of cloud services” and also supports a variety of front-end frameworks, so you can “start with React and later move to Vue or Solid without changing your application framework”.
• Hono, because “it can run almost anywhere JavaScript runs: Node.js, Deno, Bun, Cloudflare Workers…”
• Supabase because “if needed, you can export your entire database and run it anywhere PostgreSQL is supported”.
• Cloudflare R2, because it’s “an S3-compatible service, so you can switch providers without hassle”.

Portability indeed!

1. React has evolved from a little experiment thought to boost performance, into a sprawling ecosystem thought to hinder performance.
2. Platform features like ES Modules, fetch, view transitions, and async/await have made the web a nicer platform to build directly for
3. Serverless has gone from a wild new idea to well-understood
4. Cursor is especially good at working in TypeScript, which mostly eliminates boilerplate tedium
5. Modern build and packaging tools like vite, pnpm, and esbuild have made the tooling around JS nicer and much faster
6. All of the above has taken universal JS – sharing code between the client and the server – from barely-possible to well-supported

The goal was to see if there was an obvious (boring, trodden) framework, and the answer is… kinda?