[ktpsns]

I started the same way you did ~15yrs ago. I first learned JS, then PHP (this remains useful: the other way around would only allow you to generate static pages). PHP is a mature language today, you can get very far by learning frameworks such as Lavarel. Needless to say, also for JS there are huge frameworks with famous names you already heard off. There are people who do frontend programming only nowadays. This wasn't the same 15yrs ago.

I really recommend you not to get too attracted by AngularJS and friends. Proceed with learning programming basics: Back in my days, I made the step of the popular "P" scripting languages: PHP, Perl, Python. Then, in mid 2000, the "LAMP" stack was the thing: Linux, Apache, MySQL, one of the P languages. I learned all of this, and Linux was an eye opener.

Today, LAMP might be really old fashioned, but Linux is not, and SQL is also fresh and young as it has been 40 years ago. Make the step towards Linux, it will change the way how you percieve computing and especially programming. This is also true if you want to stick to web development -- a number of modern age utilities are written as command line utilities which you can only really easily and quickly make use of with Mac OS X or Linux (thinking of preprocessors and server side compilers).

[linuxnba]

can you recommend good PHP book?