What Tools Do You Use to Get Off the Ground?

I use Laravel PHP for almost all of my website stuff and I tend to float between jQuery and View.js depending on how complex the front end is. Almost all of my hosting for all of my side projects is on Hit-a-Ocean. So it makes it very easy to kind of spin up a project, deploy it and have it up and running on a server. But having said that, I'm more than willing to work with lots of different tools.