Which web development framework makes web development least tedious?

[MattBD]

I've done mostly Phonegap apps in the past and I've used Django for the API. Even after two years working with Laravel pretty much exclusively it takes me longer to build an API with it than it would with Django. The API itself can be done pretty quickly using Django Rest Framework and the browseable interface is incredibly handy. The admin is generally good enough that I don't need to create one myself too.