- Doing anything "appy" and need to get something working out the door fast, for browsers and mobile devices? --> Go full stack with meteor. The raw productivit

- Doing anything "appy" and need to get something working out the door fast, for browsers and mobile devices? --> Go full stack with meteor. The raw productivity is unmatched. - Want to do a more traditional "website" or some web services or something with networks or messaging? --> Use Elixir/Phoenix. Blazing fast, quite productive, fault tolerant and reliable. - Just a default CRUD website like it's 2006? With all the building blocks already available? --> Rails. Excellent learning resources available and should have plenty of RoR developers available for hire. --- For the frontend site, go with react, ember, angular (or meteor's blaze), all of them are good choices and may suit different needs and developer preferences. A well designed frontend layer is completely replaceable anyway. --- From all the stuff I played with in the last years, these are the choices I'd recommend