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What did you use for your back-end and for spitting out the HTML?

Laravel. I have no particular love for PHP, but Laravel just "gets it right" and understands the needs of a web developer. After years of working with Python/NodeJS (Flask/Express), Laravel was like a key that fit a lock. The ecosystem of paid plugins and services around it are really well built as well.

I've always said that frameworks, tools, ecosystem, libraries, community, etc are far, far, far more important than the programming language.

Also, nowadays PHP is not 10 year's ago PHP, same as nowadays's JavaScript is not 10 year's ago JavaScript. They're both "ok" languages to me.

And yes, having used for many years Django, some playing with Rails on the side, and then everything under the sun for Node, I 100% agree Laravel is freaking awesome and I really wish I had discovered it earlier.

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