I have worked with this (psst secret work for the Warcraft movie, Snapchat filter style) and this is an awesome, easy-to-use library. It was literally 10 minutes to set it up, no more and I could entirely concentrate on my task

The fact is that the language, framework is about 5% of the product. You can code what you are most comfortable with. So yes, you are right

@xirclebox WebStorm is not cool. If I wanted to go for coolness, I would go with Atom but I use WebStorm (and most people at Google web department do too) because it has many advanced features that come amazingly handy for huge projects and running them. If it's just a small site, I would go with Sublime or Atom but for advanced systems it's one of the JetBrains family depending on the platform and the languages they are working with

Webstorm and Dreamweaver are code IDEs. There is a huge difference. + where is Atom?

Because you can just pass that to your neighbour to do it for you. + if you do it while they watching, it does not demonstrate any real-world knowledge. The algorithms they ask can be done in max 10 minutes if you know how to. A presentation would be much more to assemble

Yes Andrea, I know but speed isn't everything :)

Be careful with Mongo and make sure you replicate soon enough :)

Riot.JS for the win! I'm a hardcore Riot user and I love it but I'm not the monthly fangirl type, I'm using it for over a year now

I would suggest HHVM since you already know PHP and also Postgres as a DB

Because they need to know if you only learned schemes or you can be creative and put something together on your own :)