It would be great if the dev community would make things Tidy. If things reliably stood up with a single command. I want to stand up apps, play with them and delete them; without spending a whole day getting my application framework to work.
These projects do just that
They use super low-fi tech that everyone should have wither on Mac, Windows, Linux or even a chromebook. Just clone and run make init
to build a brand new rails or nest js app. Look at other make targets to fast track watching tests, rebuilding packages, etc.
I uses these all the time to play and learn.