The original post: /r/php by /u/hugohamelcom on 2024-11-06 14:15:55.

10 years ago, in 2014, I heard of Pieter Levels aka levelsio for the first time. He’s one of the reason I discovered the world of Indie Hacking and Micro-SaaS.

The more I learned about him the more I realized I had the same coding style as him: core PHP (no MVC frameworks), pure CSS, vanilla JavaScript (no jQuery yet), and MySQL. Now my stack is still the same, but I added SQLite and Tailwind CSS.

Not long ago, after asking on X/Twitter how we should call this coding style, the results of the vote ended at “Vanilla Devs”. So, using that name, I built a website to list the people I know who also code this way and created a subreddit for people to share what they are working on.

I don’t know many people that code this way, but I’m curious to know who else code this way.