[benharrison]

For a few years now I have been using PHP as a thin-client UI layer on top of C# Web API (dotnet core) projects running on Ubuntu/Docker. In my experience this has worked out very well, and has been easy to separate the areas of responsibility between Software Engineers and Designers.

All of our sophistication and unit tests live inside the C# back-end projects. While the PHP in the UI layer is limited to very simple code like for loops and templating; otherwise they're mostly design projects centered around HTML/CSS/UI/UX. Keeping it so simple makes it rather easy for designers to pick up on and work with.

I started a small website to document this pattern:

http://rapstack.io

I have advocated for its use on most of my projects, but obviously the mere mention of PHP stirs up a lot of knee-jerk reactions.