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Re:PHP Popularity: Is it decreasing and what to do about it? by boringuser2 on Friday April 21, 2023 @04:58PM (#35660029)
Do you really think the inability to create anything but an index.php file is the bottleneck?

Those people just use drop-in tools now which are better than custom applications for a large portion of standard use cases.

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Re:PHP Popularity: Is it decreasing and what to do about it? by themodelplumber on Friday April 21, 2023 @05:00PM (#35660073)
Bottleneck? Just asking what's the JS equivalent in convenience for deploying a simple project.

It doesn't need to even look like index.php, just needs to be as convenient, ideally?

Drop-in tools? Examples? I was using PHP drop-in tools back in 2004 but I'm not sure if that's what you mean.

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Re:PHP Popularity: Is it decreasing and what to do about it? by adoxyz on Friday April 21, 2023 @05:07PM (#35660179)
With node, install express, and run `node index.js` and you have a full blown server.
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Re:PHP Popularity: Is it decreasing and what to do about it? by jahsome on Friday April 21, 2023 @05:05PM (#35660138)
Express and it's spiritual successors are the node "hello world" answers you're after, I think.
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