This. Might not be hip and trendy, but we've been using this stack (just with React on the frontend) and it's probably the best that I've ever worked with.

Anyone who knows Java/Kotlin will have experience with Spring Boot so it's easy to find good people. The whole platform is as mature as it gets at this point and the docs/questions cover pretty much everything.

It's really easy to get started when working on smaller projects, but you can also easily scale and integrate loads of other technologies if/when you need to. You might not need a complex caching layer, monitoring, metrics etc when you're starting out, but you know you can add it in if needed.

I tried Vue a few months back and I could not be happier. The single-file components (html/css/js) make development a breeze. I now need to make changes in relatively complex components I created 2 months ago, and my learning curve is small. Most things in Vue are expressed as expected and just work.

I cannot wait for full ES6 support in vue - it will get massively better by then.

I'm really in love with just having v-if available. Ternary operators in React are ugly and the alternative of hoisting control flow makes things much more complicated to read through.

I'd like to know what you think of http://jhipster.tech/ . Is it something you'd consider using?

I hadn’t seen this before. It’s really cool. It’s quite validating to see a lot of things I’ve handrolled implemented into a framework like this, for example the environment corner ribbon. I’d use it for sure for a new project.