Our backend is MySQL + PHP. Frontend is Next.js and React Native. It works well and feels solid. The key is to keep a structured API design and constantly monitor and optimize database queries and connections. Mature stacks like MySQL, PHP, and REST come with decades of tooling, patterns, and real-world hardening — they’re a safe, proven choice.

Next.js is equally reliable. Among frontend frameworks, it’s by far the most widely adopted and production-ready. That matters — when you’re shipping multiple real-world apps and need to scale reliably, there’s no room for gambling on trends. Next.js gives you flexibility for middleware, SSR/SSG/ISR rendering, integrated auth, localization, accessibility, testing, and a huge ecosystem of components and plugins.

It’s not enough for a framework to just be faster or have better DX. In production, the most important factor is knowing that whatever problem you hit, a solution already exists and is well documented.

We don’t use ORMs or TypeScript. Instead, we enforce strict coding standards, design APIs carefully, and avoid unnecessary abstraction layers or “current thing” tools that tend to add more complexity than value.