I remember a client who wanted to use Node.js and Angular.js for a simple site that could've just used php, jQuery and ajax but to no avail, he already has rosy

I remember a client who wanted to use Node.js and Angular.js for a simple site that could've just used php, jQuery and ajax but to no avail, he already has rosy outlooks for this latest technology that will make his website scale like crazy and with a front end that will be easy to build on. It didn't help that he had another freelancer telling him that he is 'philosophically against php and uses javascript only'.