Can i use Laravel for cloud app development?

@AggelosGalatis ah it sounds like you are talking about a pwa (progressive web app). Laravel is a backend framework (server side), so by itself it cannot make a pwa. But you can pair it with react or vue to make that part

@Sinnbeck No, i mean cloud apps. For example, on Messenger when you send a message without connection it waits until you get back online to send it. Also you can access you messages from a laptop or tablet. Is this an example of cloud app?

@AggelosGalatis Do you mean the mobile app or the website? The website is made using React, and my guess is that they use webworkers for offline handling (both frontend technologies) :)

@Sinnbeck So, if i have a web application and i move it in a cloud vendor is a cloud app?

@AggelosGalatis Then its still just a web application. But most like that term refers to using a javascript framework like vue or react to render all the html and such, but getting its data from a backend like laravel. :)

@Sinnbeck Why are they presented as two different things then?

@AggelosGalatis My guess is that they are using a term for it.

Example: Microsoft word can be installed on your computer.. This is a regular app. But you can also use Word in a browser. And you could say its just a web application. But if it is also a PWA, you can actually install it on your computer as a "native" app. YouTube for instance supports this. And here we are starting to break down the barriers. The local YouTube app is still running as a webapp, but not really. So a cloud app might be a better term

The reason I asked what your definition was, is because I have never heards it named like that. I have only heard it as a PWA. And maybe the term also defines any client based app that communicates with a server like laravel

@Sinnbeck So, because these apps are use the cloud as infrastructure are called cloud apps?

@AggelosGalatis That would be my assumption. As I said I havent heard it named like that before :) But from a little googling then that is it yes.

@Sovchenko cloud is just a buzz word. It's still on a server. Cloud = server

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