An interesting discussion started by Crisu83, about running Phaser server side.
"I have been experimenting quite a lot with running Phaser in headless mode on the server and I managed to get it to run with a few hacks.
I am not sure that it is a good idea to run Phaser on the server, but I am looking into this because I would prefer to have an authoritative server that runs on the same code base as my clients."