Funny, I was writing something to manage orders for a side business that looks promising and I started building it with Node+Express. It took some hours (3-4) but then I realized I haven't deployed a Node application to production and I'm not even sure how to keep the process alive forever, how updates would work, etc.

I re-wrote it last night in the LAMP stack in about 30 minutes. So I would write a CRUD app in PHP in 2018, I would suggest you do too tbh; PHP7 is a joy to work with. For backend framework I'm using https://www.slimframework.com/