Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats 882: Aaron Francis is putting PHP in Your JS Files
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Mar 5, 2025 Aaron Francis, a Laravel developer and co-founder of Try Hard Studios, dives into the innovative Fusion for Laravel—an exciting way to merge PHP with JavaScript. He discusses how Fusion enhances front-end interactions and simplifies full-stack development while addressing challenges like state management and data fetching. The conversation also explores optimistic UI for smoother user experiences and hints at future collaborations between PHP and JavaScript, particularly with React support. Plus, he shares amusing stories about domain name acquisitions!
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Invalidation and Caching
- Fusion for Laravel handles invalidation by syncing state between the frontend and backend via post requests.
- Caching can be done at the backend and state updates can be synced to the front end to react accordingly.
Implementing Optimistic UI
- For optimistic UI updates with Fusion for Laravel, decorate actions by wrapping the provided function.
- This lets you handle optimistic updates and revert changes if the server request fails.
React Integration
- Fusion for Laravel will support React, with development already underway using tagged template literals for PHP blocks.
- The React version will differ significantly from the Vue version due to JSX and the different component structure.