If you've been working in nothing but PHP, you assumedly know web dev. HTML, CSS, Javascript, the principles of APIs and REST, Database access, etc.
If you have strong fundamentals in all of those, the language abstractions on top of that should be very straightforward for you to pick up.
People will blast me for this, but my honest advice is "fake it till you make it". If you can confidently convey your expertise in the interview, and pass the tech screen, and rapidly get up to speed if/when you're hired, then that's all that really matters. Most job listings don't tell you the negative stuff either.
How does the company you're applying to know what you worked on at your previous roles? They don't. Don't tell everyone all your sins. Vanilla PHP and cruddy WP template work, all deployed with FTP? No, you worked on Laravel with React, and maintained the CI/CD pipelines for deployment. Don't sell beyond your means, but appreciate that if you were stuck working on garbage and they refused to let you use best practices, you have to look out for youself.
IMO this was a reasonable baseline... maybe ten years ago =/ These days companies are swarmed with so much expertise, especially after the FAANG layoffs, "I know some basic web dev" won't get you anywhere. You won't even get a rejection email, much less a tech screen.
It's a really saturated space and a lot of businesses are pretty cautious right now after the layoffs of these last couple years.
If you have strong fundamentals in all of those, the language abstractions on top of that should be very straightforward for you to pick up.
People will blast me for this, but my honest advice is "fake it till you make it". If you can confidently convey your expertise in the interview, and pass the tech screen, and rapidly get up to speed if/when you're hired, then that's all that really matters. Most job listings don't tell you the negative stuff either.
How does the company you're applying to know what you worked on at your previous roles? They don't. Don't tell everyone all your sins. Vanilla PHP and cruddy WP template work, all deployed with FTP? No, you worked on Laravel with React, and maintained the CI/CD pipelines for deployment. Don't sell beyond your means, but appreciate that if you were stuck working on garbage and they refused to let you use best practices, you have to look out for youself.