This is such a great question. In my experience: - Django has been simply amazing to work with. It is the framework with which I measure other frameworks. Its

This is such a great question. In my experience: - Django has been simply amazing to work with. It is the framework with which I measure other frameworks. Its far for perfect, but it has the features I need. It can also be customized to most requirements. Sure, it has downsides, but they don't get in the way as badly as other frameworks. - Angular changed my opinion about front end development. My experience had been with Jquery heavy websites. Never with something better engineered from the start. Angular has issues that I'm very aware of, but it opened up my eyes to the world of better javascript programming. - React took what I leatned from Angular and just made it easy to use. Which was my #1 issue with Angular. It was too bloated. React is so much simpler. - Visual Studio Code made me open up to newer text editors and IDEs. I've mostly been a Vim user. But VSC has proven to be very nice to use. I have not abandoned Vim, but am doing more JS dev work on VSC. - The Django rest framework is super amazing. It just works so well with Django and allows me to build great APIs without a lot of overhead. I wish there was something like it for Java.