Posts about Laravel

  March 7, 2025

Laravel

It’s looking more and more like I’ll be using Laravel in preference to Rails, Django, and Masonite. Maybe Laravel isn’t ‘better’ from every point of view, but it seems ‘better’ enough for me.

  February 19, 2025

Convention vs. Configuration

Ruby on Rails is well known for its philosophy of convention over configuration. And there are definitely benefits to that approach. But are there also significant disadvantages?

  February 2, 2025

Rails and Laravel

I’m finding that I really like the syntax of Ruby and the philosophy of Rails. Both are straightforward and ‘clean’. But I’ve been tinkering with Laravel, too, because it runs on more shared hosting services since it’s just good ol’ PHP.