882: Aaron Francis is putting PHP in Your JS Files

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🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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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 Yii Laravel 02:27 What is Fusion for Laravel? 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 Livewire 37:32 Databases and scaling 41:27 Postgres extensibility and hosting options Crunchy Data Xata 47:44 The vision for Fusion 48:31 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs Sick Picks Aaron: Better Display CLI Shameless Plugs Aaron: High Performance SQLite Mastering Postgres Screencasting.com Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Scott: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads Randy: X Instagram YouTube Threads

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0:00.0	Welcome to Syntax today. We have Aaron Francis on today and he's done something either amazing or awful.
0:06.0	We're going to figure it out, but he's figured out how to put PHP inside of JavaScript.
0:11.0	You didn't think JavaScript was bad enough? We figured out how to put how to put PHP inside of it.
0:15.8	So we're really excited at them on to talk about why and how and all of this good stuff. It's called
0:22.2	Larravel Fusion. So welcome, Aaron. Thanks for coming on. Yeah, thanks for having me. I hope we
0:27.0	get to the bottom of it. I don't know. I don't know which is sullied worst. Ph.P. by having
0:31.4	JavaScript or JavaScript by having PHP. So we can find out together. Yeah, absolutely.
0:36.7	Certainly makes enough people mad. I can tell you together. Yeah, absolutely. It certainly makes enough people mad.
0:38.3	I can tell you that.
0:39.8	Yeah.
0:40.8	Yeah, it sure does.
0:42.1	I went into the Reddit comments and quickly regretted that.
0:45.7	Oh, man.
0:46.8	The classic.
0:48.5	Well, give us an introduction of who you are and what you do for anyone who's not
0:52.3	familiar.
0:53.5	Yeah, sure.
0:54.1	So I am
0:54.9	historically a LeraVell developer. My friend, Steve and I, started a company called Try Hard
1:01.2	Studios almost a year ago. We're coming up on a year now. And what we've done over there is
1:07.5	so far database educations. We've done, you know, of course on SQL Lite and on Postgres.
1:12.6	And so we make a lot of videos, but I am and always have been a Larravel developer.
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