I wish I could upvote this a million times. And yet, I repeatedly inflict this problem on myself.. I'll look at some high-level framework for X, and I'll thin

I wish I could upvote this a million times. And yet, I repeatedly inflict this problem on myself.. I'll look at some high-level framework for X, and I'll think "oh cool, look how easy it makes everything, let me just use that for my next project". So I set up everything in 2 hours, then spend the next two days tripping over some ridiculous issue with authentication, or ORM, or some other bug. The best success I've had for my modest web projects has been when I've used Flask and accompanying tools for server-side (I'm guessing Sinatra would work just as well), and Backbone for client-side apps. It takes a while to set up, but I understand everything that is going on, so I can easily fix problems as they occur.