To throw a completely different wrench into the mix, I mostly just use Django to provide an API anymore, and for session handling. I love and use Django, and h

To throw a completely different wrench into the mix, I mostly just use Django to provide an API anymore, and for session handling. I love and use Django, and have built large projects where I haven't really run into any limitations with it[1], but for the most part, nowadays my workflow is to pip install django, south, tastypie, then load in a template with Backbone and Marionette, then get to town. Templates are either Mustache or Underscore, depending. [1] - Yeah, it could be faster, but if you have a large, confusing database schema that you inherited, the Django ORM is great for getting things stood up, and then just tune the queries after the fact. It's still a huge timesaver vs. writing every query by hand.