Suggest a fun, future-friendly stack for my next project?

[ek1]

So the elevator pitch is "femme-first anti-capitalist witchcraft portal" which is obviously going to make me loads and loads of money. But I really like the idea of playing with virtual economies and creating spaces for people to interact with each other online...I have a lot more features etc figured out and a realistic, scoped list of things I want to get done for launch, but now that I realize I'm in a place where I can get more serious about actually starting to work on this, I have to start thinking harder about how exactly I want to do it.

Because I want to do this for fun and I definitely won't have to worry about monetization, I figure it makes most sense to treat it as a learning experience, a long-term portfolio item, and make running it as enjoyable and low-impact as I can - I don't want to have to re-do the whole thing in a year.

For the back end I'm pretty sure I want to use Laravel (Laravel is what we're switching to at work, so it would be good to get some solid experience in) and I was thinking Vue for the front, just because there seems to be a bit of a lasting buzz around it, and I hear good things, but I'm open to suggestions!

 

[Adam]

Saying Laravel is like @Gummibeer ’s bat signal. I’m sure he will be happy to advise on anything Laravel-related! 🦸‍♂️

 

[tom]

Laravel for sure! For the frontend you could also use a Vue Framework like Nuxt.js (you'd need a universal app for server side rendered pages if you want your website to be viewable by most search engines that don't already handle parsing JS websites).

 

[Mike Rees]

Vue seems to be the go to choice for a Laravel backend. A lot of the Laravel packages ship as Vue components by default. Personally, I prefer React for my Laravel projects but don't tell the Laravel community that!

 

[VickiLanger]

I have no input on stack as that’s not something I claim to know much about. I’m convinced you could use pretty much anything to make anything, with some exceptions.

Anyway, I just wanted to ask clarification on what you community goal is. Are you looking to build something like gaiaonline, with forums and a big world to walk around and socialize in, or like neopets?

 

[Gummibeer]

I've read Laravel in here!?^^
Independent of what you want to do: Laravel will be a good choice for your backend! 😉
If you want to use any SPA, JS frontend or use plain-ol Blade is up to you and what you want to achieve, feel comfortable with and so on.
There are multiple common stacks which you can pick one or use a complete new/other one.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1223254514037403648

 

[Gummibeer]

@ek1 If you need any help with Laravel I can recommend Laracast, this Wednesday is Laracon online (25$ for an awesome day).
If you need further help feel free to ask me.
Some of my references: Tom Witkowski - Gummibeer

 

[Adam]

+1 for Laracasts! Up there with the best learning for any programming out there.

 

[ek1]

Whoa Laravel/Vue seems pretty unanimous, and was the most popular answer in that twitter poll @Gummibeer linked...Exciting! I'll keep you all updated :)
@Gummibeer if you've covered this elsewhere, nevermind, but can you recommend a good intermediate Laravel tutorial? Like, I get MVC and I've built a simple app, but have no clue what other functionality there is...?

 

[Gummibeer]

Whoa Laravel/Vue seems pretty unanimous, and was the most popular answer in that twitter poll @Gummibeer linked...Exciting! I'll keep you all updated :)
@Gummibeer if you've covered this elsewhere, nevermind, but can you recommend a good intermediate Laravel tutorial? Like, I get MVC and I've built a simple app, but have no clue what other functionality there is...?

Still Laracasts^^
They cover to senior level. My favorite stack is Laravel, blade, tailwind/bootstrap & vanilla JS/alpine/drop-in Vue.JS.

And reading the docs will also bring you pretty far. If you've really read und understood the whole docs you will be ~mid-senior level.
In addition I can recommend you some blogs/Twitter profiles.
Freek Van der Herten (Freek murze)
Mohamed Said (themsaid)
Brent (brendt_gd)
The whole spatie Team - including their packages.
Nuno Maduro
Matt Stauffer
And a lot more I would have to search.^^

The action pattern took me pretty far and regarding to clean code I stick a lot to spatie guidelines - you can find our adjusted ones at Elbgoods Guidelines primary the condition part is so important!

 

[Adam]

I followed this course a while back, it was great! Covered a huge range of techniques including Vue and I ended up with some software that I used for a project.

Let's Build A Forum with Laravel and TDD

A forum is a deceptively complex thing. Sure, it's made up of threads and replies, but what else might exist as part of a forum? What about profiles, or thread subscriptions, or filtering, or real-time notifications? As it turns out, a forum is the perfect project to stretch your programming...

laracasts.com

 

[Gummibeer]

@ek1 & @TGDesigns another great resource, by Matt Stauffer, is:

Onramp to Laravel

Learn everything you need to get hired writing Laravel, quickly and easily.

onramp.dev

 

[TGDesigns]

@Gummibeer Ive been doing a laravel crash course this weekend ... Jeez I didnt know what I was missing out on! All the juicy stuff easy database access, generating models and controllers!

 

[Gummibeer]

@Gummibeer Ive been doing a laravel crash course this weekend ... Jeez I didnt know what I was missing out on! All the juicy stuff easy database access, generating models and controllers!

So glad you like it! 😅
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