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Cushty's avatar

Learning JS should I switch?

Hi Hope you can help, I am currently learning JS, been 2 months learning and building 10 to 14 hours a day, i have experience in React and Vue, and firebase but have not learnt express and Node, my project will need server-side implementations as I need to use stripe and stripe connect, I find tutorials for stripe with express and Node very sparse and I have not found one implementing stripe connect and I am worried about security etc, though I will store very limited data for users and stripe will take care of all payments

I want to build a basic services web app where we have vendors and user can book them for a service

I have gone through the PHP basics on laracasts and I see that the syntax is not too far off JS, I do not have PHP experience, I am wondering if I should stick with JS and learn express and Node or go full force into Laravel?

I am really worried it may take a long time to grasp enough PHP to use Laravel

What would you recommend?

Thanks so much

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bugsysha's avatar

Considering that JS is far more than it was when I started, I would probably stick to JS only. It can do far more than any other programming language as far as the web is the target, it can cover both front and back of the stack.

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