laravel

Laravel by default uses MySQL for it's database setup, but I typically like to use SQLite when possible for simplicity and ease of use. When bootstrapping a new app with Sail and no database configured your PHPUnit config can use a quick tweak to use SQLite in memory.

For the last few years, I have been a major proponent of Statamic for any site that need content management in some capacity.

It makes it stupid simple to create content heavy sites that have both a great author experience as well as developer experience. If I never have to touch Wordpress or Drupal again it wouldn't be soon enough.