[rajangdavis]

I work primarily with a legacy, enterprise PHP application and it is a monstrosity (large number of classes, breaking framework changes, deprecated front-end libraries, very old MVC patterns, heavily imperative).

There are elements that Rails (predictable routing, simplified MVC, templating rendering, and general ease of set up and deployment) and Angular (flexibility, directives, safe templates, state based routing, imperative but can be functional with filters) provide the feature set that I have described above (aside from the routing object idea for generating server and client side routing).

The underlying technologies are not important; Node already has isomorphic javascript. I think Phoenix might be on track to remove the need for a heavy use of javascript for creating a single page application by simply using channels.

However, I cannot speak on Node and Phoenix because I lack the experience with these languages to comment. I do have experience with Rails and Angular to generate an example of how I would like a full stack, AJAX heavy application to work.