882: Aaron Francis is putting PHP in Your JS Files
Mar 05, 2025•54 min
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Episode description
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
- 02:27 What is 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
- 37:32 Databases and scaling
- 41:27 Postgres extensibility and hosting options
- 47:44 The vision for Fusion
- 48:31 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs
- Aaron: Better Display CLI
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