Comment by Siddarthan Sarumathi Pandian on "What is the best back-end language for ReactJS and what database do you use with it? MySQL?"

Your choice of backend and DB has nothing to do with the choice of your library or framework on the front-end.

I've always coded with what I know and it has worked for me - if you know PHP, go ahead and build your backend with PHP. If your data is relational and going to be suited for SQL, go for it by all means.

There are terminologies like MEAN and MERN going around, but I think that's just because someone who knew Mongo, Express, Angular and Node made it work together. Nothing's gonna stop you from using PHP, Laravel and MYSQL, so you can go ahead and call it a PLM stack.

Long story short, there's no single answer for the 'best' language on the backend to work with for react. 'Best' is not something that's tangible, everyone has their own definition. So, work with whatever language/framework you are comfortable with.

And, lastly, Welcome to Hashnode, Muhoho Jeremy. :D

I am so much impressed by your answer..... Am good in laravel and mysql and I thot there is no way to do React/Laravel/Mysql ...... I had started reading node js.... I will now do research on how to do this...... Thank-you so much

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.

Completely agree with Sid's answer! You can make anything work with anything! The only factor that you should take into account is the developer productivity!

In that regard, React can most definitely be used along with Laravel. There's Laravel Mix, which is a wrapper around webpack which conveniently takes care of bundling your JavaScript files!

Agree with you, guys

Yes, any language is ok. It is best if there are libraries that makes it easy to build a REST-api. I have used C# but it should work with Java, C++, Ruby, Python, Go, Elixir, F#, PHP or almost any popular backend language.

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