Kent Steiner

PHP to me is a legacy technology that I have years of experience in, and can step back into when necessary, but I do not choose to use in new projects. PHP

I have been using React/Flux since just about the beginning of React time. Redux is a great upgrade and extension of the core flux concepts, and brings immutable and strict declarative state to the apps I build. Redux.js

I use babel so I can confidently move forward using ES6 and other more modern Javascript concepts and libraries in development and still maintain compatibility with the current state of web browsers and other viewports. Babel

Twilio is a service I have experimented with, and given a project with SMS requirements I would choose Twilio to support that. Twilio

Disqus is a nice well-known and easy to use commenting engine, plays well with most any web-facing integration. Disqus

Socket.IO has a decent community footprint, including integrations with popular JS frameworks, and has fallbacks to maintain an app's services if websockets are not available for some reason. Websockets are an important factor in most of the web-facing apps I build, to provide asynchronous two-way communication between the app and whatever server or data source it is connected to. Socket.IO

Handlebars for me has taken a back seat since my full embrace of React, but previous to React it (along with its predecessor mustache) I used it heavily, both server and client side, in multiple languages. Handlebars.js

Foundation has been my choice for years over Bootstrap and other similar CSS frameworks due to the naming conventions, well-designed built-in components, and it plays well with React when I'm not using ElementalUI instead. Foundation

Charts, charts, charts. Data visualizations are a great way to communicate information to people who need to know it, quickly and concisely. D3.js

Pingdom is a tool I use close to deployment of new apps or sites and periodically used to check the health of an app or site over time. The analysis of request times, assets and more is second to none. Pingdom