I note in the comments that you are open to alternatives. I'm familiar with both Django and Rails. I leaned on Rails for years – starting at the pre v1.0 day.

I note in the comments that you are open to alternatives. I'm familiar with both Django and Rails. I leaned on Rails for years – starting at the pre v1.0 day. Today, I prefer Phoenix (the Elixir framework). You also mention in the comments the use of StackOverflow. Elixir Q&As live elsewhere on https://elixirforum.com/ https://elixirforum.com/, which is very active. All the "senior" members of the community hang out there and routinely answer questions. Even Joe Armstrong, who designed and implemented Erlang is active. There is also an active Elixir Slack. I still have personal projects in ruby, but none in Rails; all the survivors use Sinatra and Sequel (a far better alternative to ActiveRecord). For small projects, any of these frameworks will suffice. However, once you need additional services, such as: messaging; background processing; server-side state (e.g. redis); crons; monitoring and self-healing; etc. then Elixir and Phoenix shine brightly.