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I love Ruby and for the quick web MVPs I use sinatra + sequel.

I try to avoid JavaScript if possible... Setting up the JavaScript build/transpile system, installing dependencies, fighting the dependency version hell drains all the hype and productivity from my soul...

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I agree that dealing with the front-end can be a drain sometimes, but unfortunately it's necessary for many types of MVPs that require a rich UI.

Do you have any such MVPs or projects you could share?

https://github.com/adnanh/rye - simple url-catcher on our slack channel (live at http://rye.hajdarevic.net/) (Using slack outgoing webhooks + https://github.com/adnanh/webhook for catching the webhook and running a simple shell script that parses the slack message and extracts all URLs and then hits rye with curl to store and crawl them)

https://github.com/adnanh/mikro - my personal micro blog that I mainly use to store interesting links (live at http://blog.hajdarevic.net/)

I'm currently working with a friend of mine on an MVP that we plan to offer as a service, and the source code is not open, but the stack is: React (JSX + ES6 + Webpack) + Tachyons for frontend, Ruby (Grape + Sequel) for frontend API, Golang for workers and processing, PostgreSQL as a DB and Redis for caching

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