Django for the backend with a postgres database. Just use django - I am using it for around 7 years: never regretted it, always happy with my choice. This is im

Django for the backend with a postgres database. Just use django - I am using it for around 7 years: never regretted it, always happy with my choice. This is important to me and has not happened with other things I've used (like spring mvc, jsf, angular.js, android dev etc). I generally try to avoid complex front end stuff, in most cases a little jquery and a datepicker are enough. If I need something more client heavy then I'll always try the least complex solution - if jquery isn't enough then knockout.js would suffice most of the time. On extreme cases (UI heavy SPAs) I'd use react+redux with a django rest framework backend. But only if it is absolutely required. I have measured that using pure django (and friends like django filters, django tables etc) is like 5 times productive and 10 times more DRay than if you add client side/ajax stuff to the mix (along with the required bloat like client side tooling/weback, apis, auth, routing, client side models and forms etc).