I wonder, is Ruby with Rails still the best choice if you're starting out and want to build web applications? A few years ago the "new" stack was something like

I wonder, is Ruby with Rails still the best choice if you're starting out and want to build web applications? A few years ago the "new" stack was something like MEAN or MERN but Express doesn't seem to have the productivity of Ruby. If you had to start today, what would you pick and why?