Is it better to use wayfinder or ziggy ?

Wayfinder and Ziggy serve different primary purposes, especially in a Laravel + InertiaJS application:

Ziggy:
Ziggy provides your JavaScript (client-side) with access to your Laravel named routes, making it easy to generate URLs on the frontend that match your backend routes. This is very helpful in InertiaJS apps, where you often navigate or link between pages from your JavaScript components and want consistent route URLs.

Wayfinder:
Wayfinder is generally used for generating navigation menus in Laravel, especially based on your application's routes and authorization logic. It helps with determining the "active" state of links, building navigation structures, and so on. While you can use it with InertiaJS, it's mainly for backend-driven menu rendering and can output data that you pass to your Inertia page.

Which to use?

• If you need to generate URLs for Laravel routes on your frontend JavaScript components:
  Use Ziggy.
  Example (using Ziggy):

  route('users.show', { id: 1 });
  

  This will output the URL for the named route users.show.

• If you need to build/organize menus or navigation and determine which link is active:
  Use Wayfinder.
  Example (in a Blade or controller context):

  $nav = Wayfinder::for('main');
  

You can use both together:
It's common to use Wayfinder to build your menu structure and Ziggy on the frontend to actually generate the route URLs dynamically. In an InertiaJS app, you might fetch your menu structure from the backend (Wayfinder) and use Ziggy for route generation in your Vue/React components.

Summary Table:

Conclusion:

• Use Ziggy to generate URLs in your JS (frontend) code.
• Use Wayfinder to build navigation menus and handle active state logic.
• In a real-world Inertia project, you’ll likely use both together for a great experience!

Let me know if you'd like code samples for a specific use case!