Comparing VB desktop app dev to web app dev is a little bit apples to oranges. Regardless, Django gives you everything you need on a silver platter, with fanta

Comparing VB desktop app dev to web app dev is a little bit apples to oranges. Regardless, Django gives you everything you need on a silver platter, with fantastic documentation. To make your life easier, you could probably just use SQLite for the DB, and just run your app locally w/ the dev server to avoid having to deal with deployments, security, and possibly exposing your financial data online. Maybe avoid Vue/APIs to start, and just do old school backend rendered templates. Bootstrap + jQuery + Highcharts will get you very far. Since you brought up VB though, maybe an Electron based desktop app is actually what you want?