[photojosh]

And as the OP says maybe 10+ users, you can likely get away with SQLite for even less setup. We're using this Django+SQLite combo for internal tooling.

> Every time I try to build something on the front-end with JavaScript ... I get tangled in a huge mess.

What's been the least messy in your experience? I'm still using jQuery and moreso these days just raw JS to add the tiny bit of useful interactivity, eg dynamic search fields.

[wiktorcie]

I'm mainly backend guy (python), but used to do a bit of jQuery/bootstrap and basic js. Recently discovered quasar framework with vuejs and I'm amazed how productive it makes me.

[khaledh]

Admittedly, I'm not inclined towards front-end dev, so it might be me. But I noticed that a lot of devs also dread the messy JS ecosystem nowadays.

If I had to choose, I'd just stick with vanilla JS for whatever _little_ dynamic behaviour I want to add.

I'm also planning on trying out Stimulus + Turbo [1] for serving server-side HTML to the client dynamically.

[1] https://stimulus.hotwire.dev