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PHP and JavaScript
A Good Pairing?
Posted by Charlie Recksieck
on 2026-01-08
In a couple of cases, that's a moot question since I inherited these brownfield projects from a client who already had code with a previous developer.
Should you use this tech stack when you have a ... See full post
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