title: Codeigniter too much for only REST service, is there better options?
body: <p>I'm starting to build a small ERP web application. Im currently a bit in-between choices for the system that i should use. What i have in mind is that i would do a REST api to pass data from backend to frontend and probably use Angular.js to handle all the frontend stuff (views and such). </p>
  
  <p>Would it be an overkill to use a PHP framework, lets say Codeigniter just to build an REST service like that?</p>
  
  <p>Im also very inclined to use Node.js / Express / Angular combination. But since that would be harder to maintain in the future (since pretty much everything here runs on PHP and the knowledge is better in that) i would really need some good pointers why that would suit better such need? I have some experience with Node / Angular / Express and PHP but i haven't really used Codeigniter.</p>
  
  <p>TL;DR is Codeigniter an overkill to use only to build an REST service and use Angular for the rest &amp; is there any really good advantages why I could lean towards Node.js / Express combination rather than PHP framework?</p>