If you have the time, learn a few tools and learn them well enough. Like django, bootstrap, git, and postgres. Maybe celery, redid or gunicorn. As for the fron

If you have the time, learn a few tools and learn them well enough. Like django, bootstrap, git, and postgres. Maybe celery, redid or gunicorn. As for the front end, no matter how it seems, the fastest and easiest path forward for a newcomer is plain old HTML, CSS, and JS. Maybe jQuery. Keep it simple, keep it maintenable. (most of the hot new shiny tools are not really suited for one person shows, unless they are also your day job, IMO)