Polymer. The MERN stack. And be faster with VIM.

Hahaha.

Use Laravel to expose a REST API. Use React to consume that API and do it's work. It all depends on what you need. If you use MERN.io, it gives you an isomorphic app, out of the box. So, it's all JS ( & Nodejs). Up to you if you want React, or Vue or anything really.

In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion. :) BTW. I saw this on Kickstarter. There's a few more of that kind. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/primotoys/cubetto