882: Aaron Francis is putting PHP in Your JS Files

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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
• Screencasting.com

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