The backend: from simple to absurdly complex…
Here’s where the real inversion happened…
2011 stack: PHP…
2026 stack: Next.js…

Welp, it’s your choice to complicate the stuff. You could easily keep the PHP and just add ReactJs or even better - VueJs.

Have you ever checked out Laravel at all, considering your Rest API endpoint even?

And why use Docker in Production of personal projects that are supposed to be used for high load? Why not deploy on a finite VPS/VDS environment existing explicitly for this single workflow? Why add a separate layer in already isolated environment?

Source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47642355