Favorite low overhead full stack

Whats your favorite full stack choices with ease of development and low overhead?

* Framework of choice * Fancy UI of choice * Auth solution / libraries (SSO?) * Rest API or graphql etc? * Database (SQL or NoSQL) * Cloud provider(s) * Any awesome tools that are must haves?

As general question, do folks find SSR easier to work with than SSG or vise versa? Lot of options out there these days and it differs greatly on your use case.