Day 01: Launching Laravel

Day 1 I have some experience with Laravel (I built spendweek.com with Laravel and Vue). But it’s been a while since I dove into the ecosystem. I have to say, it’s a lot. You are presented with a lot of options right up front: Blade Livewire Inertia Breeze Jetstream I got a bit of analysis paralysis because I didn’t want to start in the wrong direction. Luckily, I have this project and the clock is ticking. Having a React frontend already built narrowed down the options. Breeze seemd to fit my needs and the constraints of having a React frontend already. Also, this reference implementation gave me confidence I’d have documentation to follow if I got stuck. ...

January 24, 2025 · 3 min · 481 words · Me