I really enjoy the laravel and vue.js combo. The documentation is great, Taylor Otwell is a benevolent, benevolent dictator, and there are lots of pretty simple yet featured demos available written for humans. It just works.
I had an older system running PHP 5.3 and after a day of refactoring, it was ready for 7.1. The CPU usage literally dropped by 50%. Pretty amazing!
Not to mention laravel is quite pleasant to use and has got to be one of the fastest routes to building a good saas app backend with any language.
I've got a new project coming up and I think I will be going with laravel and reactjs.
I also have a new project to work to, and I want to try laravel, as I am not using frameworks generally, despite some Magento work.
I played with VueJS and it looks like the good combo to start with.
And then I found this [0], benchmarking PHP frameworks. Of course we can’t tell (or I haven’t found) if the tests were in production mode, and if it’s relevant.
Do you have any experience with this ? Because in my project, the routing aside, it’s just a CRUD app.
Thanks if you can answer.
[0] https://medium.com/@asked_io/php-mvc-framework-showdown-7-1-...
I used to worry about overhead. I stuck with codeigniter for that reason. But in reality, the difference in overhead is indistinguishable even at large scale.
Save yourself developer time and throw a few extra vCPUs at your project. CPUs are WAY cheaper than developer time (even if it's your own unpaid dev time).