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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