Hello @mariusdonici2001

First of all welcome :)

For Laravel you have the support policy and the Server requirements

I suspect that any composer version 2 is correct.

For NodeJS I think it depends on what you want to use for frontend (and to be honest I do almost nothing with frontend)

For Ubuntu, that is your operating system. The version doesn't really matter as long as you can install the required PHP and NodeJS version and the webserver you want.

The most basic answer is: use the latest version ;)

I feel you. I have spent a good couple weeks just trying to find that right balance. I thought, let's get Ubuntu 22.04, the latest version and Laravel 10 and php 8.2. I kept having issues with npm mostly. I finally got it install but I went through so many iterations that I'm not totally sure what it was that made it work. It just felt like a constant rabbit hole. Fix one thing then something else breaks or it would just move to the next thing that it didn't like. I've been unable to find a simple tutorial that works.