Swap backend to something modern

[tonygustafsson]

Today we are using PHP and CodeIgniter 3 framework. I see some problem with this.

• It's old and outdated. There are a CodeIgniter 4 out which is better but all features and libs are not ported yet.
• I would probably want to stop using PHP and go with NodeJS instead. Easy to run on cloud services as well.
• It should communicate through REST API only.

Some steps have been taken already to using the backend as an API but much more is needed.

[tonygustafsson]

I did some research today. I felt like it's going to take too much of my time to swap the backend to NodeJS so I figured I should change to a more modern PHP framework in the mean time. Smaller increases works better for me timewise.

I checked what frameworks were recommended nowdays and I think Laravel is the recommended one. I like small frameworks though that makes the bare minimum. And after trying Laravel out I think they require Composer to work. Would have been ok if I were not using Docker for my local development setup. I just want a couple of files and go with it.

I then tried Codeigniter 4... I think it would work just fine. It has a lot of improvements over version 3. I need to refactor alot of stuff though. Mainly the models.