What would you recommend instead of those?

Flask and postgres

PostgreSQL is my database choice under practically all circumstances.

I'd replace PHP with practically anything written by grownups. (Django, Rails, etc.)

Agreed with PostgreSQL. But I'd go with Laravel rather than Django or Rails. More modern, more features, active development and constant new features are guaranteed for Laravel, in addition to growing community and abundance of learning resources.

Five years ago, I decided I was never going to touch PHP ever again.

I have been much happier professionally since that day.

Except in a case when we want to build an e-commerce website for client. PHP has so many mature frameworks, like Magento/WooCommerce etc. I look at Python ecosystem. Yeah, we have Oscar and Saleor but they are pale compared to their PHP cousin.

But other than e-commerce, yes, Django or even Rails is my preferred choice.

If you ha w to work with Magento just go ahead and sign your sanity over to Cthulhu. That’s what finally drove me over the edge.

You might want to give it a shot. PHP has vastly improved with PHP7

I don’t know. I think I’d rather touch Symfony than Rails at the moment.

And both probably beat out Node.js

Django multi-page app for me, with Postgres

Rails + postgres!

I agree with the sibling posts.