Making the case for Laravel as a Next.js alternative

• folio

  1 480 10.0 PHP

  Page based routing for Laravel. (by laravel)

  

  Next.js is famous for its simple and intuitive page-based routing system. But did you know that Laravel has a similar functionality now? Up until this year, if you wanted to create a new route in Laravel you'd have to specify it in a main routes file. However, a first-party package called Laravel Folio was recently released that enables purely page-based routing, and it works surprisingly similarly to Next.js.

• laravel-export

  1 423 0.0 PHP

  Create a static site bundle from a Laravel app

  

  There's a package, laravel-export, that comes from a well-respected third party. After installation there's zero necessary configuration before our entire site can be statically generated with a single command, php artisan export.

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• Next.js

  492 115,171 10.0 JavaScript

  The React Framework

  

  Next.js is a powerhouse of a full-stack web framework with features like page-based routing, static-site generation, and dynamic React components, but what if I told you that you could get all of that with just PHP?

• breeze

  1 2,454 0.0 PHP

  Minimal Laravel authentication scaffolding with Blade, Vue, or React + Tailwind. (by laravel)

  

  Going deeper than just blade files, Laravel is a full MVC framework and so includes things like Models and Controllers out of the box that can be used to organize your server-rendered code. Authentication is also baked in by default, and with first-party packages like Breeze, Sanctum, or Socialite, you can include user registration, login, API-based authentication, social sign-ups, and role-based permissions with near zero configuration.

• Laravel

  70 75,382 8.5 PHP

  Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We’ve already laid the foundation for your next big idea — freeing you to create without sweating the small things.

  

  Laravel is a PHP framework that's been in development for almost a decade. In that time it has solidified itself as one of the most-loved options for building web applications powering the needs of both startups and some of the largest companies around. It also has amassed a massive community of individuals and organizations that provide world-class packages and libraries to enhance its already renown developer experience.

• sanctum

  1 2,617 0.0 PHP

  Laravel Sanctum provides a featherweight authentication system for SPAs and simple APIs.

  

  Going deeper than just blade files, Laravel is a full MVC framework and so includes things like Models and Controllers out of the box that can be used to organize your server-rendered code. Authentication is also baked in by default, and with first-party packages like Breeze, Sanctum, or Socialite, you can include user registration, login, API-based authentication, social sign-ups, and role-based permissions with near zero configuration.

• forge-sdk

  2 490 10.0 PHP

  The official Laravel Forge PHP SDK.

  

  Since Laravel runs on PHP, and PHP has been around for decades, getting a server provisioned with the requirements for a LAMP (or LEMP) stack is not too difficult of a task. There's a plethora of options available, from shared hosting to VPS providers. Even managed services like Laravel Forge that can handle the provisioning and configuration of your server for you, similarly to how Next.js has managed application instances with Vercel.

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• socialite

  1 5,401 0.0 PHP

  Laravel wrapper around OAuth 1 & OAuth 2 libraries.

  

  Going deeper than just blade files, Laravel is a full MVC framework and so includes things like Models and Controllers out of the box that can be used to organize your server-rendered code. Authentication is also baked in by default, and with first-party packages like Breeze, Sanctum, or Socialite, you can include user registration, login, API-based authentication, social sign-ups, and role-based permissions with near zero configuration.

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