Hi HN! I'm a very occasional web developer, who usually work solo on projects. The problem I've run into is that I'll set up a piece of software, using a framework such as Laravel, and then not need to update it for a couple of years. However, when I go back to updating is, usually much of the tooling is broken, and the framework is out of dates, not getting any security updates, etc. I don't usually have time to update to the latest "version" of the framework that is being actively developed, in addition to the usually day-long process of figuring out why something like grunt or webpack isn't working properly.
Hence my question: What tools, frameworks, etc, move slowly, in terms of development, and are easy to work with? What web development stack is the least likely to break after not touching it for a few years, or even a decade?
Any insights are appreciated. Thank you!
I'm not aware of all the frameworks that have these types of LTS support, but that's what I'd look for.