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
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