Ask Me Anything About Laravel with Taylor Otwell

This video is part of the Adeva Fireside chat Series, where we host talks with industry leaders, covering different tech-specific topics. We are super excited to have Laravel`s creator Taylor Otwell. Taylor is here to answer your Laravel questions! Join us for an hour of open-ended Q&A with the creator of Laravel. We’ll cover everything about the latest Laravel version, chat about the news and trends, or address your concerns about the framework. #firesidechat #laravel #qasession Questions: 00:00 Introduction 02:30 Laravel News and Updates 03:49 Are there still painpoints that you are trying to solve? 10:05 Have you ever thought of merging Forge and Envoyer into a single product? 11:54 What are your thoughts on having a schema method available in the model along with the command for generating migrations similar to Symfony? 12:46 What feature of Laravel was the hardest to implement? 14:15 What are your thoughts on a DDD structure option when initializing a project? 15:55 Why is Valet no longer featured in the version v9 docs? 17:25 Would you consider bringing InertiaJS into the Laravel family? 21:04 What excites you the most in the PHP world right now? 23:57 What are the current limitations of Laravel? 25:10 What is the current status of the job market for Laravel as far as you know? 26:52 Have you thought about porting Laravel to another language? 29:50 What are your thoughts about PHP core migrating to more strict language? 32:03 What are some of the best decisions you made that helped Laravel really hit off? 35:55 Do you think Laravel deserves a built-in Permission Manager? 38:05 Whould you like to see some of the Laravel core features veing included natively in PHP? 40:15 Are you aware if Laravel is taught in an academic context anywhere? 41:50 Would you ever come back to Reddit? 44:15 How different is life as a manager rather than individual contributor? 45:32 What steps would you recommend to developers that plan to use Laravel as a microservices? 48:55 Any thoughts on improving Laravel in the e-commerce space? 50:04 What is the fastest achievable response time (in miliseconds) in Laravel 9 and PHP8.1, for a simple API project? 51:40 How successful is Vapor? 53:44 With Lumen (almost) gone, what things you consider (or would suggest) when creating an “API-only“ Laravel app?