[swyx]

Netlify is consistently held up as an example of how to do developer focused UX. I'm def biased as an ex employee but I can attest that i've seen from the inside how closely design and accessibility are integrated in the dev process.

as far as up and comers, i'd recommend checking out https://supabase.io/ - love the minimal black/green aesthetic. they recently released a Tailwind/React design system too https://ui.supabase.com/

[jitl]

Supabase is really such a dream. It’s obviously early days yet for them, but I love working with the little subset that I picked — it really goes a long way to making Postgres easy. I wonder how accessible it is to newcomers though - feels more useful for the “I’ve used postgres before and am doing a side project” crowd (eg me) versus the Firebase audience of “hello I want something called back end plz”

[nicoburns]

I always wonder where the “hello I want something called back end plz” crowd come from (is it coding bootcamps?). Backend is so much easier than frontend, an so many problems and complexities can be avoided by putting things in the backend.

When I joined my company, there were a couple of junior devs on my who had barely touched the backend, and never used SQL (because we used to be on firebase). They were up, running ans productive with both in under 2 weeks.