god i did full stack web dev for 4 months and i wanted to shoot myself how do you do it
The JS/TS ecosystem has a lot going for it. If you want to add any sort of functionality to your app, 90% chance there's a package (or 6) available for it, and there are tutorials/stackoverflow questions for pretty much any issue you'll encounter. Webpack (and friends') watch/reload for immediate feedback makes for a really nice, streamlined dev workflow, especially when making tiny tweaks between each build. TypeScript has a really powerful type system, and visual studio code strikes a nice balance between giving lots of helpful stuff for development without feeling too bloated.
Honestly I'm having trouble thinking about using anything else, tbh. not to say that there aren't downsides (as with everything), but frontend web dev is in a super nice spot atm. can't really say much for backend, but the options there probably aren't bad either