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Pretty much my exact usual stack. All these fancy JS things are popping up but I can achieve most of what I want with PHP and jQuery.

I am learning Laravel though and it's completely changed PHP for me, such a nice framework to build upon.

well you could go w/ laravel for a more modern experience..still on php.

The thing is, that I prefer to develop from "0". I used and use Laravel when needed, but I find more joy in creating things myself.

That's exactly why I built my own framework :)

PHP, Apache, PostgreSQL, jQuery. No framework.