About Applied Stacks

Applied Stacks is a public repository that documents the tools and other components people use to build websites and web applications. Here, you can find what's behind specific sites. Alternatively, you can explore sites that use a certain component.

Applied Stacks exists for two reasons:

First, it's here to help you make better, more informed, choices about the languages, libraries, frameworks, toolkits and other components you use by documenting what has been successfully used by others.

Second, since one of the most convincing (and least annoying) ways of arguing the worth of a tool is to build something useful with it, this site also provides a medium for non-obnoxious advocacy.

One of the goals of this site is to help raise the visibility of packages that are less well known in the broader development community. In doing so, it is hoped that developers will be connected to the tools and components that really do best fit their specific needs and preferences.

The Applied Stacks database itself is community built and maintained with its contents being dual licensed under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and the Creative Commons Share Alike License (CC By SA). This means contributions found here can be readily incorporated into other resources with compatible licenses such as Wikipedia.

The entire database can be downloaded as a YAML file here.

Please, feel free to e-mail any questions, suggestions, or bugs.
contact@appliedstacks.com