I am working on a product with multiple engineers and we adopted Reactiflux + SPA + Node + a bunch of fancy tools. While I love that stack, it took me a while

I am working on a product with multiple engineers and we adopted Reactiflux + SPA + Node + a bunch of fancy tools. While I love that stack, it took me a while to realize that for most of my side projects, building alone a prototype with all those things is killing my productivity. A messy Rails api with angular1 or even Rails + ERB are way quicker. Letting go best/latest practices and go for the the non-fancy (and sometimes a bit dirty) way is harder than it seems.