I love how easy it was to get up & running with MacChiNa - just follow their instructions! The documentation could be improved in some areas (e.g., GPIO pins), but overall this has been great so far as we're getting our feet wet working through examples provided by them using real hardware components from Adafruit Industries' products line).
We are currently focusing only at first glance upon developing web services / APIs which can then actuate other IoT connected systems such as light switches etc via wireless protocols e.g.: ZWave; ZigBee2MQTT ; LoRaWAN.