When should you pick Laravel over WordPress?

16/10/2023 26 min Temporada 2 Episodio 1
When should you pick Laravel over WordPress?

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What exactly can you use Laravel for? How does it differ from WordPress? When does it make sense to use Laravel versus WordPress, and what can we learn from the Laravel approach to open source work? Come on an adventure with us as we dive into Laravel and build a mini project over the course of the next few episodes and compare and contrast it with our experience in the WordPress world.A full transcript of the episode is available on the website. Watch the video podcast on YouTube and subscribe to our channel and newsletter to hear about episodes (and more) first!Demo Project - https://suggest.viewsource.fm/Project Repo - https://github.com/viewSourcePodcast/suggest-episodeLaravel Breeze - https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/starter-kitsWordPress Performant Translations plugin - https://make.wordpress.org/core/2023/09/05/call-for-testing-performant-translationsCanonical Plugins in WordPress - https://make.wordpress.org/core/2022/09/11/canonical-plugins-revisited/Brian's website – https://www.briancoords.comAurooba's website – https://aurooba.com
(00:00) - Introduction
(00:58) - Getting into Laravel
(03:12) - How Laravel is Different from WordPress
(04:38) - Introducing the viewSource Laravel mini project
(07:18) - When should you and shouldn't you build with WordPress?
(11:26) - The Laravel Ecosystem
(15:44) - Documentation in the Laravel world
(18:06) - Using Breeze to spin up a login system
(20:22) - How Laravel gives you momentum
(21:28) - Every framework has a learning curve
(23:46) - How to get started with Laravel
(26:44) - Conclusion