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I'm looking to build a new app with a frontend, rest API, and server-side rendering. I'd prefer a single batteried framework supporting all of these out of the box.

It's been a while since I can develop from a clean slate and I was hoping web dev in 2021 would be much simpler than what I am used to. However, I spent this entire morning looking at modern frameworks (not going to name them to avoid turning this into a different kind of discussion) and I'm kinda disappointed. They all look complicated and require lots of configs and plumbing to get started.

Any stack/framework that you find simple and joyful to develop with?

I started this as a weekend project and posted it on HN 5 years ago. 300,000 users later, I just released v4 today. Octotree [1] gives GitHub a sidebar that improves file navigation and code/pull request review. Works on Chrome, Firefox, Opera and Safari. Any comment or feedback is appreciated.

[1]: https://www.octotree.io/