I Built a Free Quran Web App with the SERN Stack — Here's What I Learned A few months ago, I asked myself a simple question: Why isn't there a clean, fast, ad-free Quran web app built with modern tech? Most existing apps are either bloated, filled with ads, or haven't been updated in years. As a Muslim developer, this bothered me. So I built one. Meet Al-Quran Hub — a free, non-profit Quran web application built with the SERN stack (Supabase, Express, React, Node.js). Here's everything I learned shipping it to production. 🧱 Why the SERN Stack? I wanted: A real database with row-level security (not just a JSON file) A proper REST API I control A fast React frontend with clean routing Zero vendor lock-in for the core logic Supabase gave me a PostgreSQL database with an auto-generated REST layer, but I still built my own Express API on top of it for flexibility. This separation of concerns made the architecture much cleaner.…