Web development newbie here: I seriously used to think that such a thing would already exist, a thing like Visual Studio that included all the guts out of the box, and including back end in addition to the front end.
What other libraries would you recommend to have everything required for making a basic web application. The end-result should include a responsive front-end, user authentication and security, reports, charts and visualizations, forms, blog, payments, and finally an ability to integrate pre-existing Java code in the back end. Apologies if something I am saying is not making sense.
I think a collection of integrated stack would be very interesting. Much like we have small recovery linux distribution, server distribution and desktop-oriented distribution. Like, distrib of webservice, of webservice + frontend framework + end-to-end stack java (thinking GWT or Zk here), ...
Meteor is trying to create something like this, but I feel the focus should be more to integrate community projects (they say they do, but in reality they don't), not building everything from the scratch.