> even though modern PHP is well-suited for most SaaS/web-products Maybe, but is it pleasant to use? My memories of PHP are not fond at all, it is a really mi

> even though modern PHP is well-suited for most SaaS/web-products Maybe, but is it pleasant to use? My memories of PHP are not fond at all, it is a really miserable language to write. Maybe it has the features it needs but is it actually nice to use? Same with JQuery. There's a lot of rose colored glasses these days for JQuery, imo. It is not fun to write. Also the complexity lift to use React versus using JQuery is minor compared to the complexity lift distributed K8s microservices have over an NGinx server with a custom bash script. The extra complexity of the scalable microservices architecture might be sufficient to actually sink your startup. The extra complexity of using React over JQuery costs... Essentially nothing. Edit: I guess what I'm really saying is that choosing a different backend technology or frontend framework isn't remotely the same as choosing to build a scalable distributed microservice architecture over a static bare metal server. Choosing a technology is a choice based on what you want to work with and what you think you can hire other people to work with. Choosing K8s terraform distributed microservices for scalability early on is the most premature optimization you can possibly make. Get a customer before thinking about scaling.