Laravel Equivalent in Javascript

What is Laravel?

• Open source web framework
• Written in PHP
• Follows MVC pattern

What does Laravel provide?

• Simple and fast routing engine
• Powerful dependency injector container
• Easy creation of REST API
• Expressive and intuitive database ORM
• Better database schema migrations
• Robust background job processing
• Real Time event broadcasting
• Easy to scale
• Email based and social authentication

Why shift to a JS alternative?

• Another language to learn for JS devs
• Extra learning curve with Laravel
• Requirements of the use case
• React in the backend
• PWAs with Next.js or React with SSR
• Sending data on the wire

What options do we have?

• Next.js
• Meteor
• React SSR with Firebase

Features

• Server rendered React apps.
• Minimalistic
• Close to zero learning curve for Node and React developers.
• Easy routing using <Link/> Component or next/router
• Supports router events
• Page prefetching
• Dynamic imports
• Custom error handling
• Static HTML export

Features

• Easy to learn
• Faster development
• Good database integration
• Integrates well with other JS libraries
• Front end reactivity

Challenges

• Deployment
• Crash Handling
• Scaling

Questions?