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Thanks for the link. I definitely agree. I've never used Node, but didn't want to dismiss any recommendations without fully researching the technology. Perhaps building the API in Node and leaving the CRUD to our existing server-side stack is an option.

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This is the route I've gone. The core CRUD part of the app is PHP, and the real-time chat and document collaboration aspect of my app is node. Works beautifully. I've had so much fun working with node for the last few days.

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