Check out Vue.JS before React/Angular. I find it much more succinct. Node+Express is a very fast backend. Plus the advantage is ES6 all around. Node utilizes t

Check out Vue.JS before React/Angular. I find it much more succinct. Node+Express is a very fast backend. Plus the advantage is ES6 all around. Node utilizes the host resources much more effectively than PHP. And PHP requires Laravel/Artisan to make up for its shortcomings, IMHO. It feels like those to extensions were built for people with extensive PHP backgrounds, and not newcomers. Whereas Node does a better job onramping IMHO. I find using JS on both ends is much easier than trying to bring in a bigger system like Rails/Django/Apache+PHP. Especially if you are starting from Square One.