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Published: Sept. 20, 2024, 11 a.m.

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Taylor Otwell, the creator of Laravel. Taylor shares insights on his journey from creating Laravel in his free time to building a strong community and user base. He discusses Laravel\u2019s growth, including the major features and tools that were developed over the years. Taylor also shares his outlook on the PHP ecosystem, productivity tips, and plans for Laravel Cloud, a new deployment platform for PHP and Laravel applications.

Show Notes

• 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
• 00:29 Laracon
• 03:13 Laravel\u2019s inspiration and features
  • Intertia
  • Livewire
• 07:18 Why don\u2019t we have a \u201cLaravel for JavaScript\u201d?
• 09:02 What parts of Laravel came first?
• 10:07 The Laravel ecosystem
  • Forge
  • Vapor
• 12:29 Laravel Cloud
• 14:00 What parts of Laravel are Intertia and what parts are React?
• 15:57 How many people are using Laravel?
• 16:59 Taylor\u2019s productivity and development philosophy
• 24:43 Brought to you by Sentry.io
• 25:19 What makes a beautiful API?
• 29:33 Taylor\u2019s thoughts on typing PHP
• 30:41 Features Taylor would like to see in PHP
• 33:03 What people get wrong about modern PHP
• 34:22 PHP stacks and CMSs
  • Nginx
  • FrankenPHP
  • Statamic
• 37:30 Taylor\u2019s thoughts on WordPress
• 38:14 Lambo memes
• 43:44 Taylor\u2019s coding setup
  • Sublime Text
  • Vs Code
• 45:36 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs

Sick Picks

• Taylor:
  • Tiny Glade
  • No Man\u2019s Sky

Shameless Plugs

• Taylor: Laravel Cloud

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