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Laravel comes with Laravel Elixir and it uses webpack2 since version 5.5. Both frameworks have huge communities. The laravel community has seen a huge growth

by wolco 8y ago

Laravel comes with Laravel Elixir and it uses webpack2 since version 5.5. Both frameworks have huge communities. The laravel community has seen a huge growth lately. I'm not sure it's an advantage anymore. In fact the popularity has grown in favour of laravel. https://www.netguru.co/hs-fs/hubfs/image1-4.png?t=1535725104549&width=1999&name=image1-4.png https://www.netguru.co/hs-fs/hubfs/image1-4.png?t=1535725104... Comparing php to ruby php is clearly faster https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/faster/php-yarv.html https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/... I get the feeling that laravel has surpassed rails.

websitescenes 8y ago
That’s cool, didn’t realize that webpacker was built in. How does Laravel handle SPA functionality? Is there a Turbolinks equivalent as well?
- websitescenes 8y ago
  Just did some quick Googling and looks like there is a Laravel port of Turbolinks. It certainly does look like they’re catching up. Surpassed? Not convinced.
  - joelbluminator 8y ago
    "catching up" = copying most of what Rails is doing, not innovating or having any original ideas of their own. That's not really a sign of a strong community, and people working in Laravel might start asking themselves why not work with the real thing instead of a clone.