Celebrating 15 years of web development experience in 2019, I've been building web applications since tableless design was the new hotness. My first paid work was in 2004 with Wordpress Theme Development. I quickly desired to build more robust applications for the web, finding Ruby on Rails in 2006 felt like striking water in the desert.
From 2006 until about 2014 I focused primarily on Rails until switching focus into the emerging JavaScript frameworks. AngularJS, Angular, React and Vue have become the frameworks I'm most familiar with.
As of 2019, my preferred stack would be some mix of: