Rails. But do Rails 7 (still in alpha but it's on rubygems - it's also super stable, I think the alpha label is simply because DHH hasn't finalized all the changes). Gone is all the webpack JS nonsense (it doesn't have any dependency on Node at all). Hotwire/Turbo/Stimulus is standard. ES Modules/import maps are standard. It's dead simple, almost reminds me of the early days of Rails. But of course it's industrial-strength, better than ever, Ruby is also better than ever.
Edit - to make life extra easy also set it up with Postgres and deploy to Heroku. Everything literally just works.
Edit - to make life extra easy also set it up with Postgres and deploy to Heroku. Everything literally just works.