I write mostly PHP and Javascript at work. Given the choice of 1) creating an app in PHP, or 2) creating a simple PHP back end to, for example, add or delete a

I write mostly PHP and Javascript at work. Given the choice of 1) creating an app in PHP, or 2) creating a simple PHP back end to, for example, add or delete a resource, and creating all the interaction in HTML/Javascript, I always go with #2. That's because jQuery makes Javascript and Ajax so easy. PHP is painful by comparison. (Of course, many people say PHP is painful inherently...) More importantly, jQuery is much much faster and less error-prone to develop with that Javascript alone.