Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler For real world projects you end up needing a fair bit of stuff. I'm using a pretty similar stack and once you

Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler For real world projects you end up needing a fair bit of stuff. I'm using a pretty similar stack and once you are up and running the majority of it falls into the background and your day to day work generally involves working only with an easy to use top layer.