In this episode, Michael and Alex are joined by Aaron Francis, software developer, content creator, and co-founder of Try Hard Studios. 

Besides covering Aaron's journey into programming, they dive into Fusion, a new library that Aaron has been working on which will fuse your Laravel backend together with your Vue frontend, allowing you to write PHP and Vue in the same file. The three developers dive deep into the technical details of Fusion, how it works under the hood, and also how the community reactions have been so far.

Enjoy the episode!

Our Guest

Aaron Francis

• Fusion
• TryHard Studios
• Bluesky
• Twitter

Chapters

Links and Resources

• Laravel
• TryHard Studios
• Fusion
• Fusion Intro Video
• Aaron's Laracon EU 2025 Talk
• DejaVue #E029 - Inertia.js (with Joe Tannenbaum)
• Volar
• Fusion Reddit Post
• Nuxt Server Blocks
• DejaVue #E020 - Documentation and Migration: From Vue 2 to Vue 3 (with Natalia Tepluhina)
• DejaVue #E016 - The Future of Vue.js (with Evan You)
• Aaron's Year in Review post

Your Hosts

Alexander Lichter

• Bluesky
• YouTube
• Website

Michael Thiessen

• Twitter
• YouTube
• Website

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