🔗 Livewire and Inertia: how we love and use both

We've been building Laravel applications with Livewire and Inertia for over 5 years. If you held an individual Spatie employee at gunpoint (please don't) and forced them to pick a favorite, you'll get a 50/50 split. It's like choosing between chocolate or vanilla ice cream: there's no objective winner (except vanilla). But when we look at the choice at hand as a team, it becomes easier to determine the right fit.

When we start a new project, we'll look at the specifications for the app and the shape of the team building it to determine the tools to include in our inventory. We're a Laravel agency, so starting with Laravel is obvious. But choosing a frontend stack to match isn't as straightforward as it was. Laravel has access to a large suite of first and third party tools to build an application frontend. Over the years, our options have grown. Plenty of choice is great, but it can lead to decision paralysis or fear of missing out. We've put our eggs in two baskets: Livewire and Inertia (paired with React). Why both? Because each have their strengths.