I think this is probably the best suggestion in here. And I'd just add that there's no need to jump into a new backend language if you used PHP years ago. Sure

I think this is probably the best suggestion in here. And I'd just add that there's no need to jump into a new backend language if you used PHP years ago. Sure it's not as robust or structured but for a hobbyist it can do everything you need and there's still plenty of jobs for it if you want to graduate to an MVC framework.