i Love both laravel and node, they both are super amazing and easy to use . I have used both of them and in my experience Laravel is best suited backend for desktop web application and node / Express for mobile apps and Apis . Laravel is a full stack framework and opinionated whereas in Express there are multiple ways to accomplish same thing . Laravel is heavy in terms of memory and cpu unless u use HHVM as compared to node , so powering a backend for mobile apps with node makes more sense to me .
I’ve got a background as a LAMP dev, but have been dedicated js for awhile. I thought about Laravel, but found http://phalconphp.com/en/ to be the superior php framework, both in terms of speed and rapid development.
Its implemented as a C extension, making it super fast with low resource consumption.
I enjoy Node, but I know how you feel about being comfortable with PHP. This framework might be just what you’re looking for to get the best of both worlds.
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You can find lot of Backend-as-a-Service solutions here:
http://www.programmableweb.com/category/backend/apis?category=20044&order=created&sort=desc
Some specific for Mobile (mBaaS):
http://www.parse.com/
http://cloudbase.io/
After reading all the above, I came to know that Laravel and node both is useful for backend, I am OK with both so now tell me which one is the best option for me.
Hey man !
More than 1 year and a half later… I finally decided to use Firebase, and never looked back on that choice. It saved me countless hours of dev.
Good luck !