Node and PHP most often on the back end, React or Next.js on the front end, and PostgreSQL or MySQL for data — chosen because they are well-understood, well-documented, and easy for another team to pick up later, not because they are fashionable. We are equally comfortable working inside a stack you already have rather than replacing it for its own sake; a rewrite is rarely the answer when the actual problem is one slow database query.
Node and PHP most often on the back end, React or Next.js on the front end, and PostgreSQL or MySQL for data — chosen because they are well-understood, well-documented, and easy for another team to pick up later, not because they are fashionable. We are equally comfortable working inside a stack you already have rather than replacing it for its own sake; a rewrite is rarely the answer when the actual problem is one slow database query.