jigsaw VS Laravel-Zero

I decided to choose jigsaw as I am familiar with the technologies it's built with (PHP , Tailwind for styling and Blade as template engine) as it will be easy to customize if needed besides that, it comes with decent amount of features out of the box, I barely did any customization to it, just followed the installation instructions and got started.

JigSaw

Also if anyone knows of any third-party templates for Jigsaw, I can't find any except the default blog and docs that they have in their documentation.

https://github.com/tighten/jigsaw/blob/main/src/Jigsaw.php

I also would argue that the majority of code I see in other languages is equally or worse than the example you gave.

You can write terribly in any language, Laravel included.

We have ~8 Laravel apps and roughly 40-50 Jigsaw projects that we keep up to date like this.

Take a look at Jigsaw from Tighten: https://jigsaw.tighten.co

Now, as for what runs the site. It is a static site, using Jigsaw as the framework. Jigsaw uses Laravel’s blade templating. Since one of my goals this year is to learn Laravel, it was the perfect fit for my site. GitHub is where I've decided to store my repos, and Netlify watches for changes to my main branch and rebuilds my site.

Originally I considered using Laravel Zero but I think web views could play a role in the future such as an admin page to allow non-technical people to restart commands, etc.

Another Redditor pointed out https://laravel-zero.com which can build a standalone app, PHAR file. https://laravel-zero.com/docs/build-a-standalone-application

The app is based on Laravel Zero by u/nunomaduro, and it uses Termwind to render the release notes to console with styling and clickable links.

Hmm, since you're familiar with Laravel, you could give a try with Laravel Zero. It's based on Laravel (actually, this is stripped version of Laravel), and provides the bare bones for CLI apps.

We won't use specialised frameworks like Minicli or Laravel Zero because the goal is not so much to focus on features but to better understand the development, testing, and distribution phases of command-line programs.

I've been using Laravel Zero for quite sometimes, mostly writing simple application to do the ETL, migration purpose related - from one database type to another.

Laravel Zero: micro framework for console application;