Sure, this looks like a cool project, but good luck getting a bunch of non tech people to install node on some server. PHP is just too dead easy. What might be

Sure, this looks like a cool project, but good luck getting a bunch of non tech people to install node on some server. PHP is just too dead easy. What might be a good first step is to create a plugin for wordpress which creates these same rest endpoints and then replacing the frontend entirely (has been done before). Then, allow the backend to be swapped out with wordpress, this, ghost, whatever.