Hmm, my backend is some SQL, a bunch of PHP scripts handle requests and return JSON to my SPA. Only thing I use is jQuery since I didn't want to handle the FX s

Hmm, my backend is some SQL, a bunch of PHP scripts handle requests and return JSON to my SPA. Only thing I use is jQuery since I didn't want to handle the FX stuff; everything else goes through some wrappers I wrote in half a day and which take care of browser glitches. JSON to html5 content is now at a few thousand SLOC, but still easy to maintain - by me, but honestly not by others. Would it be better with a framework? No, because my employee is a C.S. company with an entirely different focus (applying some corner theory stuff to industrial products): no one here is an expert in PHP Frameworks, instead we have some pretty good C++ and ocaml masters.