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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