882: Aaron Francis is putting PHP in Your JS Files

Wes and Scott talk with Aaron Francis about Fusion for Laravel, a new way to seamlessly integrate PHP into JavaScript. They discuss how Fusion expands on Inertia, its potential for React support, and how it simplifies full-stack development.

Show Notes

00:00 Welcome to Syntax! 01:22 Aaron’s background in PHP
Yii Laravel
02:27 What is Fusion for Laravel?
Fusion for Laravel
09:14 How Fusion works 13:57 The benefits of Laravel 19:18 Invalidation and caching 25:20 Brought to you by Sentry.io 25:32 Optimistic UI 28:28 React integration? 31:44 Fusion’s original name (and the naming process) 33:30 Laravel’s approach to frontend frameworks
Livewire
37:32 Databases and scaling 41:27 Postgres extensibility and hosting options
Crunchy Data Xata
47:44 The vision for Fusion 48:31 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs

Sick Picks

Aaron: Better Display CLI

Shameless Plugs

Aaron:
High Performance SQLite Mastering Postgres Screencasting.com

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