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by diwu1989 2245 days ago
Frontend should definitely be something along the lines of Typescript and React. Typescript's typing support is a good investment for long term UI dev productivity as the project scales.

Native desktop client could utilize the same stack via Electron.

Backend could start with Python using a popular all-in-one framework like Django to begin with, and scale towards micro-service architecture over time as components grow in complexity.

Heroku is a good all-in-one infrastructure service that takes care of dev-ops for the first year.