If you don't mind the "i want some text rendered by the server!!11" crowd, go with https://www.meteor.com/ https://www.meteor.com/ . From account management to

If you don't mind the "i want some text rendered by the server!!11" crowd, go with https://www.meteor.com/ https://www.meteor.com/ . From account management to data persistence, it should get you started in a few hours until the core functionality is done with Meteor, with modern stuff like soft-realtime-updates and collaborative features included out of the box. The UI and UX parts will require substantial more amount of time, but stuff like the medium WYSIWYG editor is already avaliable for you: https://github.com/donflopez/meteor-medium-editor https://github.com/donflopez/meteor-medium-editor if you like it. With seamless includes of additional packages your and your client's sites will be crawlable, too. You may read http://blog.plague-dev.de/posts/meteor-isomorphic-fullstack-development http://blog.plague-dev.de/posts/meteor-isomorphic-fullstack-... for more intersting bits about meteor's capabilities.