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I don't know that many nicer tools than Laravel, to be fair.

Especially Laravel + Lighthouse, which is an extraordinarily neat GraphQL layer considering the huge deployability you get with PHP.

PHP is progressing towards a nicer language in a way that JavaScript, IMO, is not. And taking tens of millions of programmers with it.

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You should also have a look to api-platform (https://api-platform.com/), it's based on Symfony and you can create Rest or GraphQL APIs with ease.

That does look interesting.

I'm currently using Nuxt/Vue (static) on the front end, with Apollo (this latter bit I will probably swap out).

What is nice about Lighthouse is that it is schema-first. I am far less fond of the "auto schema" approach that e.g. WP-GraphQL uses. (Though WP-GraphQL is not bad; I'm also using that in a project).

Or don't, if you have a business data model that is more complex than a hello world.

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