Should I learn MEAN stack or else continue with PHP as backend development?

I have learnt lot of Javascript and I am still learning it(Never Ending Process). Also I learnt PHP as backend since I knew WordPress. So please all suggest me what should I learn? Should I learn

1) MEAN Stack or 2) Build Hybrid apps for Android & IOS with current knowledge or 3) move with PHP based web apps.

All developers are most welcome to suggest and advice. Thanks in advance :-)

I think that It all depends on the needs of your current project.

Now, if you are curious about some technologie and/or want to learn something new I would suggest you go ahead and do so.

Pick something, try it out. It won't hurt you.

Have fun!

Never use Angular
Use the tool you know the best and master it, don't need to waste time and reinvent the wheel. If it's PHP, then use PHP. What I can see you need to learn a lot since you mentioned WordPress...
As you mentioned also mobile development and you are interested in learning something new I would recommend learning iOS10, Swift 3 and whatever for Android.

Backend is backend and PHP is still one of the best, easiest tools for that with more then 20 years of history, bugfixing, optimization, development, evolution while Node.js has only 5. PHP7 is also very fast. In PHP community for so many years today we have only few solid frameworks and tools. When you want X, you know what to do while in Node.js you will need to write a lot of stuff yourself or waste more time browsing thousands of packages.

Another baseless "Never use Angular" post - Would you care to explain why not? I use it successfully, many, many others do also. If Angular fits the needs, why not? 5 years ago - I said never use Wordpress - now a days, if it fits the needs of my client, why not? I'd rather use it and earn the $$$$ from the project, then to baselessly dismiss it and loose out.

"Never use Angular" why would someone in their right mind say this. I love PHP, Laravel has made me stick with it otherwise i'd have left it for the MEAN stack, that being said there are things that PHP alone will not archieve. A failure to be open minded about technologies will limit your prospects greatly!

"Never use Angular" why would someone in their right mind say this

Because they understand, through experience, the unecessarily complex and inconsistent piles of extravagant trash that JS Frameworks are - Express and Vue.js being the only acceptable options, imo (with Vue.js, being more of a library of sorts, aka "jQuery on steroids".)

Golang and PHP7 bookend Node.js/Express in speed and reliability. Then, it depends on how you use it, which takes years to learn properly and not a 90-Day Bootcamp for $12k - which is the product of agencies throwing turds into a fan in order to determine what will stick faster.

What are you interested in building? I sure wouldn't be learning to build native mobile apps if I didn't want to work on them ;) Basically you should learn things that grow your career in the direction you want it to grow. Are you wanting to be a frontend, backend, full stack, mobile specialist or something else? If you want to stay in the backend realm I would recommend you learn something other than PHP as it does seem to be declining.

MEAN is not bad, although I would be thinking twice about Angular with the 1/2 split; if you're going from scratch I'd probably go MERN over MEAN right now. But even then, it depends a lot on your circumstances - do you have a lot of MEAN/MERN devs around that can help you if you get stuck? Is one of these options the chosen stack where you work? All questions that might guide you to an answer.

Well i think depends. If you are comfortable with PHP, and anything of their frameworks, go with php for backend and javascript for the frontend, i think the good thing that php have is the multiple cache systems, and some libraries or the posibility to run cronjobs in the server, i dont know if with node are these posible or whatever. For other side if you are so comfortable with javascript and ll the things you gonna do javascript can do, go with the MEAN.

Nowadays the javascript ecosystem grows so fast and i read that react is a really nice choice, for other side you can try with MERN.

In my opinion you should go in a direction that keeps you employed and earning $$. These days this means node.js, data binding libraries like react.js, vue.js etc or go the .Net path and learn how to build MVC web sites using SQL Server.

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