What tools are you using for web development these days?

Question

I've been a professional web developer for about 10 years now. In my first professional role, my team and I experimented with a variety of languages, IDEs, and frameworks for our first web project, and ended up going with PHP, PHPStorm, and Laravel, respectively.I know these tools are still popular today, but I must admit that I'm a bit out of the loop with regard to modern alternatives.What tools are you using these days? I would appreciate some recommendations.

h2odragon · Accepted Answer

Probably further out of the loop than you, but for what its worth:
I've just done a couple of static HTML generator projects, using python, Markdown and Jinja2. I played with mod_python and apache for the server but haven't got any excuse to use dynamic page generation yet.
"web developer" is no longer the nice neat definition it once was. Today you can honestly say that about your static pages with no server or browser side code; as well as the massive "application suites" that touch dozens of "technology stacks" and can't be made to produce the same output for the same inputs, ever.
The tooling is available for the whole range, so you might do better to specify more what kind of web development you're aiming at.