PHP on the frontend! No more Javascript! 

aaron makes me love php

"Have you ever had a thought..". None, I have a zero thought policy. Even thought I don't use PHP, your videos are entertaining!

Fellow Laravel content creator here, absolutely love your style of video. You have really nice personality & charisma in this video, keep it up man!

I've been a mobile developer for the past 10 years but PHP has a soft spot in my heart, no matter how much hate it gets. I built a little backend for a mobile app I developed for a software competition way back in 2012 (and won 3rd place!). All vanilla PHP, no frameworks. I wasn't aware of Laravel back then. I tried it here and there but my career took me elsewhere. Your videos on PHP makes me wanna learn Laravel again.

I started watching PHP content again after 6 years of working with other languages, all because of your videos. I was surprised to see PHP added types! Also, Laravel and all of the PHP ecosystem have advanced a ton! Great content Aaron!

Another great video! Livewire is honestly so cool and magical. Keep up the great PHP/Laravel content!

For anyone using Symfony, Symfony UX works similarly and has support for vue/svelt/react components too

After each video that I watch from you, I have a big smile on my face. ❤

been waiting for Livewire v3.0 so long... Your videos are the best. :)

Great video! One thing worth explaining in the counter example: Every time you click the increment button, you not only send to the server that the "increment" function should be called, but also send the entire previous state of the component in the "memo" field. First the component gets hydrated, e.g. $counter gets set to 22 or whatever the "memo" says, and then the function is applied. The backend then increments it to 23 and sends the new view out, but also the new memo which is then stored by the frontend. Took me a day or two to figure this out. Before that, I thought some cache or db sorcery is going on.

I've been using Livewire since version 1 and have never thought to use anything else since then, even started my first open source package for the TALL stack called tall-kit components

Your style of explanation makes the topic more interesting. Great !!!

Also worth a look for backend lovers: HTMX. Its functions very similarly, but is not tightly coupled to any particular backend language.

Been watching your videos for the past week. It's this weekend that I'm building something with Laravel. I've been skimming through the docs a lot, and I'm hopeful

I just finished writing a router/ controller framework. 😂 Then i learned about htmx and loved life. This is just a whole 'nother level of amazing.

cool. just watched two of your vids. contents' both entertaining and educative. your explanation's very easy to follow too

Bro this guy talks to me like I'm a toddler and I'm here for it, love the vibes

i just found your channel and subbed to it. ive been using php for the past 9 years. ive known live wire for the past year but havent dared to try it. i will try this now.

I just fell in love with PHP. Thank you Aaron!

Life changing :D Great video .. thanks a lot ! *Loving PHP for 20 years now.

I think this is good for quick prototyping or showing quick mvp and for relatively smallish projects. Since I started with API driven development with Laravel, I never wanted to go back to tightly coupled monolithic web development. As fullstack web dev, embrace the new tech stack, frontend frameworks are there for a reason and it's inevitable if you want your skillset to be marketable.

Thank you so much for this. I would love more tutorials of maybe building a project from start to finish

i been using Laravel + Vue for several years and its been great! The one off time I need some SSR or related thing I just use Blade. I haven’t really found the need for Livewire (because my experience with Vue has been so good) but this makes me want to give it a shot and mess around

I've been on this path for a long time. I used Blade previously, but now, I'd use Livewire instead, it has some interesting features found in other Javascript frameworks

My only problem with the "HTML over the wire" pattern is that it makes it too easy to build applications that require too much server interactions for trivial state changes that can just as easily take place on the client entirely. This results in poor design, such as the way GitHub has to make a request just to render a markdown preview. That's why I prefer how React Server Components by design make it so you cannot, for instance, use state on a server component, forcing you to make it clientside.

You speak with so much conviction😃. I would like to see an overview of PHP for backends/APIs

I remember in the early days of the web that you could install a DLL or a plugin in your browser which made it possible to interpret any language you wanted (as long as that language was designed for the web, of course). So there were websites that were made with VB or Java or JS. Or you could write the plugin yourself and interpret your own favorite programming language (not an easy job, but the possibility was there). All thanks to a property of the tab script: type. All that is over. I miss those times.

Great!!! I wanna start to learn php and your videos helps a lot! tks man =D

This is the first time i feel like hitting the like button more than once on a RU-vid video 😊

Wow, looks like such an elegant way of reducing js frameworks! In my next php project I'll be sure to check it out. I've been ripping out react and angular from projects and replacing it with vanilla javascript and server side code as much as possible. Made a tremendous improvement in speed and maintenance and readibility. Haters of php haven't used php 7.4 onwards and all the new features it provides. And lets be honest, many who use async, dependency injection and inheritance in C# or java make an absolute mess of things, including myself.

I love PHP! Thanks for loving even more!

I'll re-watch this video many times because I just searching this, a way to use php on front-end. I don't know if is the best pratice but I'll exercise my code this way! Thaks a lot!

That was awesome! Thanks Aaron!

great stuff. livewire is fun. now, more devs can have fun with livewire. keep it up

I still haven't got around to programming with PHP, but after watching this video, I was curious about this 'Livewire'. I'm going to send this video to my friend who loves PHP and Laravel

That was very intresting! But i have one question. The section that you showing that the input updates the ouput via http post request like the ngModel in angular. So my question is if this is secure or not. Because everyone has access to the dev tools and they can easily see those updates and i assume that can lead to an html injection or more am I right or am i missing something?

This is actually mindblowing. I cant believe i'm hyped to learn php

It seems like it works very well, but I am concerned about the excessive http requests. It may be fine for small sites, but if you scale to a couple thousands of users, you are going to want as little backend requests as possible in order to not crash your server.

It's a sign from the heavens..Dary and Gio had me thinking about learning PHP...Now A-A-Ron...Been thinking about this for at least 3 years (im JS loser wannabe)... Imagined if I would have listened to myself and committed? I would be well on my dream of working from home in my pj bottoms and tshirt...

The advantage of PHP is that hosting is so cheap. With this technology it becomes even more interesting! Thank you

I actually like PHP, it was my very first backend technology which I dabbled with for about 2 months and afterwards jumped into Django with Python which is OK. There is so much you can learn with PHP as your first programming language. I only wish there were jobs for PHP developers in NYC, there are barely no jobs here.

been an fullstack and backend developer but, currently more interested in backend. PHP is my first language in this industry. while trying other language, I find it's simpler not to think how to manage garbage collector (PHP only keep it until the request is done), and to manipulate array and more of them. Only it's sytax take longer than other few languages. I love this language, but still the market job requrements in my country is rare for this language for backend.

Oh, wow, this is like PHP and JavaScript had a child, love it 😙

Wow you're a really good teacher!

Thanks Aaron for share useful content👍👏👏

I always don’t know should I implement spa backend (php page routing), or spa frontend (restful api + JavaScript routing)? Can anyone suggest a good article or book to guide me the designs decision. Thanks

Omg that's amazing, thanks for sharing 😊

I have done in a project last year and i was quiet surprised how good that was , still have some improvements buts its great .

I love PHP!! Hands down, I'd prefer to do more of the code in PHP and less in React/Angular, especially if this is going to execute faster than JS. Great breakdown, thank you!

Your videos are awesome! Would love more Laravel+Livewire content :D

Very interesting, I don’t know php but this is pretty neat concept

As a svelte fanboy this thing burns my soul Just imagine storing state in server It breaks REST, frontend and abuses HTTP requests I thought Angular was the worst. This is beyond Angular 😂 Btw, nice video ❤

Laravel Blade has this for some time, great to see expanded in livewire!

Please just make a course on PHP and Laravel, your way of explaining things it´s awesome man!!!!!

I am an "anything but JavaScript" type of guy. I welcome this.

No way!!!! I just finished your mysql course! It was epic! Really happy that I found your personal channel! Can't wait to see more videos from you!

what is the advantage of making multiple http requests to change an input value instead of using javascript to do that ?

Very interesting. Might have to finally check out laravel properly now

You could also use JS on the SERVER SIDE in the early days of web programming in 1999! long before NODE.JS was a thing (IIS supported it. ). You could also write STYLESHEETS with JS. Those were called JSS instead of CSS (Javascript Style Sheet).

I tried for one year, maybe more, I think SPAs are a bit complicated to implement with livewire I also found it hard to work with JavaScript libraries like tagify or file pond, when it reloads it overwrites the state messed up the library. I then changed to Inertiajs and Vue and I am loving it so far...

Really i liked your video 💖💖

I love this livewire thing!

Aoran what tool do you use to record both the screen and your face ?

I love Livewire it’s all a php dev needs!!

So much happier our team got rid of NextJS/React/GraphQL/MaterialUI for regular boring vanilla Rails+HotWire+Tailwind+AlpineJS. So much code was deleted and accumulated cruft to support the graphql api and the entire massive React app. We can put out features a lot faster now and even performance improved, less complex deployments as well, wins all around.

I use livewire but when performance matters, I use react. Between, great content.

I have been using pure PHP for the past 12 years. All modern frameworks seem so complicated and just reinventing the wheels, by the way these frame works just come and go with the trends. Also the frameworks seem to just cater to the capabilities of the moment whereas all the modern cool features yet work best and simple on pure codes. Also I am literally able to code out a project by the time a person tries to setup and configure frameworks. The long way worked well for me after all than the shortcuts and trends.

Been using Livewire for an year now - its fantastic!

Hey Aaron, thanks for sharing! But what is the big difference between Livewire component and normal blade component?

Great Video

TALL STACK for eveeeeeer

Looks good for simple pages.

We are about to start several new projects. I was going to use laravel+Reactjs. But this option is very interesting.

Thank you very much!🙏

Did you saw PHP in a sandbox enviroment with WebAssembly? They did that a few weeks ago.

Great video

it's really a nice information

I think, I am living in an era defined by "War of the Frameworks". You wake up every morning and find a new missile. Anyway, being from PHP background, I believe, we engineers love to make things fancy and complicated when it can actually be achieved in a much simpler way.

I would like to have seen the extra download cost of Livewire and Alpine (how big, or not) are they?

PHP is the best language for Web !!! You can build frontend and backend easy, more fast respect React

The fact that livewire is made with tailwind too is the bomb

Yikes, this seems kind of crazy. Needing to go to the sever for every minor change feels like a huge over reaction to JS. These sort of changes are really the concern of the client, not server

As a php developer who now does Angular, this looks so familiar.

Keep up the good work! We should be able to use any programming language in the browser. LiveWire for C++ or Fortran? Why not? 🤭

This is the first time that PHP makes me excited.

Finally php team weak up , but i guess it still limited and the data binding already exist on other language programming like c# with reactivity value of each variables like in your video, hope in the future php team make more changes :) good video keep up.

Not a php dev but I still think this is pretty awesome

Awesome! Way overdue.

This is awesome.

hard to tell if the livewire namspacing on some of your files and components is due to app name or livewire feature itself. seems using a more unique app name would avoid that confusion.

Totally love the “hit the dislike button twice” part! Thank you for the great video on this topic!

I'm really loving what HTMX's doing...

Im jumping back into web dev and trying to decide if im going to go with a JS Framework or something like Laravel. I guess i'll play around with Laravel for a week or something and see how I like it. But laravel gives me flashbacks of my Ruby on Rails days.

but can the state be so big and complex that it makes livewire/hotwire a bad choice versus choosing something like react/vue?

Does PHP have any reliable way to build web, mobile and server with the same repo with full type safety across the whole monorepo?

I haven't used php (laravel and stuff) for almost 4 years now, apparently i switched to react and node.. but man, vite replacing CRA and webpack, next.js replacing react, deno and bun replacing node, even during my typing may something had replaced already.. my motivation to learn some stable tech-steck was a lightning talk about JS by Gary Bernhardt from CodeMash on 2012

Awesome video Aaron! I wonder if there is any way to write PHP that runs in the browser?

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So gorgeous, I think I'll switch form Symfony to Laravel...

This is cool! But, it exchanges a lot of data between the client and the server. It consumes a lot of bandwidth or did I get it wrong?