When it comes to building modern web applications, developers have several options to choose from. Laravel Livewire is a popular framework that allows developers to build interactive user interfaces using PHP. On the other hand, React, Svelte, and Vue.js are front-end frameworks that allow developers to build dynamic and responsive user interfaces using JavaScript.
In this tutorial, I will compare Laravel Livewire with React, Svelte, and Vue.js (using the Inertia.js adapter) to help you choose the right framework for your project.
Laravel Livewire:
Laravel Livewire is a full-stack framework for building dynamic web applications using PHP. It allows developers to write interactive components using PHP, which are then rendered on the server and sent to the client as HTML. This makes it easier for developers to build complex user interfaces without having to write a lot of JavaScript code.
Some key features of Laravel Livewire include:
1. Two-way data binding: With Livewire, you can bind data from your PHP code to your front-end components, and any changes to the data will automatically update the UI.
2. Real-time updates: Livewire allows you to build real-time features such as chat applications and live notifications without having to write a lot of custom JavaScript code.
3. Component-based architecture: Livewire uses a component-based architecture, making it easier for developers to build reusable UI components.
React:
React is a popular front-end framework developed by Facebook that allows developers to build interactive user interfaces using JavaScript. It uses a component-based architecture and a virtual DOM to efficiently update the UI in response to user actions.
Some key features of React include:
1. Virtual DOM: React uses a virtual DOM to efficiently update the UI without having to re-render the entire page.
2. JSX: React allows developers to write HTML-like syntax within their JavaScript code using JSX, making it easier to build complex UI components.
3. State management: React provides built-in tools for managing application state, allowing developers to build interactive applications with ease.
Svelte:
Svelte is a relatively new front-end framework that compiles components into highly optimized vanilla JavaScript code at build time. This approach allows Svelte to deliver better performance compared to other frameworks that rely on a virtual DOM.
Some key features of Svelte include:
1. Compile-time optimization: Svelte compiles components into optimized JavaScript code at build time, resulting in faster performance and smaller bundle sizes.
2. Reactive declarations: Svelte provides a simple and powerful way to update the UI in response to changes in data, making it easier to build interactive applications.
3. No virtual DOM: Unlike React and Vue, Svelte doesn’t use a virtual DOM, which can result in better performance in some cases.
Vue.js (with Inertia.js adapter):
Vue.js is a popular front-end framework that allows developers to build interactive user interfaces using JavaScript. Inertia.js is an adapter that allows developers to use Vue.js (or React) with server-side frameworks like Laravel.
Some key features of Vue.js with Inertia.js include:
1. Server-side rendering: Inertia.js allows developers to build server-side rendered applications using Vue.js (or React), enabling better SEO and performance.
2. Familiar tools: With Inertia.js, developers can use familiar front-end tools like Vue Router and Vuex to build rich client-side experiences.
3. Dynamic data loading: Inertia.js makes it easy to load data from the server and update the UI in response to user actions, making it easier to build dynamic applications.
In conclusion, choosing the right framework for your project depends on various factors such as performance requirements, familiarity with the technology stack, and the specific features you need for your application. Laravel Livewire is a great choice for developers who prefer to work with PHP, while React, Svelte, and Vue.js (with Inertia.js) are suitable for developers who prefer working with JavaScript. It’s important to evaluate the pros and cons of each framework before making a decision.
Having used both I have to say that I really appreciate Livewire. It might not be the fastest or most feature-rich yet but I'm confident that the devs will improve that over time.
For admin panel definitely use Inertia, for other use cases use livewire and blade + alpine js.
Can you talk about Livewire + Statamic in a very large code base? I'm really curious how Livewire does with large datasets. For example, in a datagrid with 1000 rows of datasets is there a way to load the data in less than 2 seconds or say 700ms to 1 second? Is that a Redis issue, or is there something to do with Livewire? Also is it okay to mix ReactJS and Livewire?
Anybody else getting tired of this constant pushing of new 'frameworks'? I've learned Laravel, but then you have to learn Tailwind, then you have to learn Alpine js, then you have to learn Livewire, then you have to learn Inertia, then you have to learn VIte, then you have to learn x… it just never stops … and thén there's a new Lavavel update…. Am I correct that all these youtubers don't actually build stuff, but are permanently in 'tutorial mode'??? (for themselves and in the youtube videos they make for others?) I know I sound a bit angry, but it's just frustrating … Sometimes I think I should learn jQuery as the only Javascript library and then stick with all the other basic languages (plain vanilla Javascript, basic css,) and be DONE with it 🙂
As solo dev in small company, I decided to try Livewire, project itself is 50% PHP/ 50% Vue.
Is Livewire as snappy as Vue? – No.
Were I able to do 3-4x amount of work – Yes.
The benefits of more work done overweight the small lags in interactions and even this could be mitigated with more alpine. Plus no one really cares besides me about that fraction delays. )))
Can you help me pick the right roadmap if i had a recent knowledge about PHP, JQuery, and Ajax all of my personal project and school actv was written on it.
Im still new to this industry so im still getting confused where to jump on latest public demands, where most of people writing their code these days, i preffered PHP overall other native languages for web, cause its my mother tounge writing codes on web specially on back-end..
This is how i write my codebase structure looks like. 1st is the front-end.php (Bootstrap, Semantic UI), 2nd is front-end-ajax.pho (This handles the data, method, url request by Jquery Ajax), 3rd is back-end.php its a module() type of approach where i pass the dir, filename, functions, and $data as a parameter the. The inside of this file had all the function necessary for this filename logic and MySQL interactivities, It basically return the data send back to ajax and from ajax to front again.
Most of my personal project would look like this, so is there any recommendation on how i should improve things for modern writings and best practices. your answer would means a lot to me, thanks in adv..
I disagree, I prefer inertia
I learnt laravel. Now I want to learn the frontend framework, which should I learn Livewire or React or Vue?
Thank you for believing!
The Laravel stack is pretty cool and the most dev-friendly I have used, but I still can't find many job opportunities like other stacks (Java, .NET, JS, etc.). When searching for jobs on Linkedin the difference is enormous compared with different stacks :/
Without a doubt the thing to do is build; if you want to do it at the speed of light laravel + volt is Flash
probably laravel + vue is better because of UI things such as vuetify or radix vue
Ok this is what I have asked couple of weeks ago. You can delete this to do. Really appreciate. This is good and really helpful video. ❤
IMHO:
Languages and Frameworks are like a circle. It started with machine-language until high level languages, and now in the last lets say 10 years, we are coding back to those levels with Go and Rust.
Same with the frameworks, 10 years ago people were using Laravel/Symfony/Django/Rails and even WordPress to solve them problems very efficiently (yes, very efficiently) but then a lot of frameworks came up to solve the "performance" (maybe) problems which should be solved with more infra rather than superfast frameworks which are benchmarked with tipical "hello-world" apps.
Years later a new concept called UX enter to the field, putting loaders, spinners, skeletons because of course performance problems were just swept under the carpet and the 2 years now appears "Server Side Rendering" which is the same thing like 10 years BUT WAIT, with HTTP Streaming (or it should)!
In Conclusion, you can use whatever you want, what it matters is the time it takes you to ship! (including good Developer Experience, able to change easily and not reiventing the wheel)
In my current job, I’m stuck using Python Django. Even after learning Django, I'd still pick Laravel any day. But when it comes to Livewire vs. Inertia + a JS front end, I’d go with Inertia for sure.
My biggest difficulty when moving to laravel>inertia>react is passing data to components (like a layout or a navbar for example). Right now for my navbar I have opened an API endpoint on my laravel backend and I'm feetching all the categories/subcategories (it's an ecommerce type website) with axios and then populating the react component. I think you can do something similar with inertia share and persistent layouts(? not sure tho). Point being something that's been taken for granted in nextJS is all the sudden more difficult. However I'll take those trade-offs over the trade-offs of nextJS any day of the week. Having websockets,auth queues and scheduled tasks out of the box is just too good compared to doing it all manually on nextJS/ node.
The Livewire promise is exactly what I dream of, will it disappoint me?
When I tried Inertia + React for the first time a long time ago, I directly fell in love with it. However, after watching this video, I still feel very excited! Love this community 🫶
For small projects, it's fine to work in a single file, but as your project grows, you'll start to appreciate the benefits of separating concerns.
Livewire has single request limit and it's crazy until you hit production,
that's why people say Livewire is slow.