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You use the one which you are the most confortable with.

This. If it’s a significant app just use what you’re already comfortable with. Don’t go crazy trying to pick a tech stack, it really doesn’t matter much anyway.

Also, I can’t speak for PHP but there aren’t any frameworks for Node that does nearly as much as Rails does (Sails[1] being the closest, but yet still far)

[1] http://sailsjs.org/

For PHP it would be laravel (http://laravel.com/)

Though personally I won't work with it unless it's running Twig for templates. To each their own, though.

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