If auto scale is needed, then I‘m sticking to Firebase hosting, cloud functions written in NodeJS and BigQuery or Firestore depending on the update frequency F

If auto scale is needed, then I‘m sticking to Firebase hosting, cloud functions written in NodeJS and BigQuery or Firestore depending on the update frequency For recent projects where auto scale is not needed I‘m happily using FlightPHP as a REST framework and use SQLite as my db service. Frontend UI is provided by just including Bootstrap. This setup feels great, because it takes me back to my origins of web development: simple tools that work and get stuff of my plate. Before installing 250 MB of NPM dependencies, pre-processors etc.