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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Principal Engineer/Architect | Open Source Leader | Public Speaker | I'm part of @official_php, @phpfig, @scotlandphp, @jenkinsci, @CDeliveryFdn
Mar 16, 2022 4 tweets 2 min read
Just realised that #Laravel is like the #jQuery of PHP. I get it now.

The focus is on productivity and ease of use, rather than mandating SOLID and unit testable principles the entire way.

If you want that stuff then you'll use TypeScript/SPA, instead of jQuery.

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Yes you can do that stuff in jQuery/Laravel, it's just not the primary focus of the docs/community and that's fine.

I personally did the SOLID/DDD approach with Laravel in 2016, for an enterprise client and it was really challenging to change the culture then, but it has matured