[nolok]

I'm not tempting you do to it or anything, but I want to say given your point of view, if one day you need a crude+ app and try to do it using laravel, you might be really surprised by what modern php actually is.

There was a point were I thought the language and it ecosystem was going down the drain but then they recovered and modern php is 90% what do you want to do and don't worry about the how, it's easy.

I don't use it much anymore, but every time I do all I see are possibilities.

[defraudbah]

what about deployment? I assume I need to scp files like Python or keep everything in a single giant PHP file? is that an option?

[nolok]

Deployment these days is essentially git pull && composer update

Of course not if you use vm or serverless or whatever like this, but for a basic here is my crude app, that's what you do.

Or if you want to go old school sure, just scp that directory, it still works like it did 30 years ago.

[defraudbah]

awesome, thank you

[claar]

Laravel Forge handles auto-deployment on push to master. Or if you want production zero downtime deployments, use Laravel Envoyer.