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by yurishimo 409 days ago
Laravel. Massive batteries included ecosystem and the mental model for PHP programming fits the web so freaking good. Rails 8 tried to catch up by beginning to shape the first party queue story, while Laravel has been there for a decade and the tools have been vetted at scale.

For a skilled developer who knows any of the major MVC web frameworks, they’re all really productive, just in slightly different ways.

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One big up for Laravel and also Symfony, the other big PHP framework!

And now with InertiaJS, there are no more API endpoints necessary for any UI stuff. The data just gets prepared in the controller in PHP and gets directly loaded as JSON into the React/Vue/Svelte frontend pages, thats it!