As a long-time PHP developer, I love Laravel, all of its features, and how the community has built around it, but there are a couple of pain points I felt when

As a long-time PHP developer, I love Laravel, all of its features, and how the community has built around it, but there are a couple of pain points I felt when I used it last year, not sure if these have improved: 1. Very difficult to get running in shared hosting. 2. Feels a bit heavyweight for a SPA (Single Page Application) where the Javascript front-end framework (e.g. Angular, React) is doing most of the work, and the PHP Laravel backend is just processing the CRUD APIs in REST.