Personally, I'm on the fence about using server side rendering (which PHP is pretty good at) versus just writing RESTful APIs, because browsers now have fetch A

Personally, I'm on the fence about using server side rendering (which PHP is pretty good at) versus just writing RESTful APIs, because browsers now have fetch API built in which makes consuming them easy (no need for jQuery or necessarily even something like Axios). You can do a kind of halfway house with Htmx. Have your backend generate HTML fragments, and Htmx in the browser will inject them into the page without having to do full-page reloads or complex vDom manipulation. https://htmx.org/ https://htmx.org/