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Book 10

Tech Stacks for Vibe Coders

Single-page apps, a first version on SQLite, and what has to exist before an MVP can stay online

Free · Digital Textbook

A plain-language map of frontend, backend, database, and hosting for people shipping apps with AI coding tools. Includes single-page applications, simple stacks such as SQLite, and how to build the MVP before the infrastructure.

  • 9 chapters
  • ~4 hours
  • Hands-on exercises in every chapter
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Table of Contents

Chapters

Read in order the first time — later chapters reference the lab company introduced in Chapter 1.

  1. 01 Welcome & How to Use This Book What vibe coding changes, and why the first version should stay small. 12 min
  2. 02 What a Tech Stack Actually Is The set of programs that deliver an app, whether you picked them or a tool did. 22 min
  3. 03 The Four Layers Frontend, backend, database, and the host — including a single-page app and a SQLite file. 26 min
  4. 04 How the Pieces Talk Page loads, API calls, and what a single-page app asks of the server. 24 min
  5. 05 Stacks You Will Actually See The small MVP stack, then Next.js, Laravel, WordPress, Python, and Docker. 28 min
  6. 06 Build the MVP First One job, one process, SQLite — and what you leave for the version after people actually book. 24 min
  7. 07 Where It Runs Laptop, web hosting, and a VPS — what “deploy” has to include. 22 min
  8. 08 What Breaks in Production Env files, secrets, SPA routes, SQLite on the wrong disk, and HTTPS. 26 min
  9. 09 Capstone: Name the Stack Read a generated booking app, then cut it down to an MVP. 40 min