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Should I learn Inertia?

Last year II developed my first projects with laravel and vue and now I am about to build 3 new SPA's. After listening to THE LARACAST SNIPPET #134 "The best of both worlds" I am tempted by the idea of learning Inertia and starting the new projects right away with it. Does this make sense for someone who has only just grasped how to make laravel and vue work together?

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Sinnbeck
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I would say yes. It gives you alot of great tool for working with data, and will still develop both your laravel and vue skills further. I use it daily with react

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JeffreyWay's avatar

@marcw Give it a shot with a throw-away app and see what you think. I was sold on it pretty quickly.

I think we all have framework fatique, but Inertia is not a massive tool that takes over your app.

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anilkumarthakur60's avatar

inertia itself says Build single-page apps, without building an API if you know laravel and vue you should try once inertia its very easy to learn and implement

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marcw's avatar
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Thank you. I guess my question already reveals that I am not a professional developer. In Inertia, will i use Sanctum or can I go with laravel's built in basic auth?

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@marcw inertia uses the same auth as any normal blade page. It feels like working with blade, except all components are made in vue

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marcw's avatar
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I have now seen a few laracasts on Inertia and have also already created a throwaway app. Now I'm wondering if I should also switch from Bootstrap to TailwindCSS at the same time. Is TailwindCSS better suited for Laravel/Inertia/Vue than Bootstrap?

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@marcw Use what you are comfortable with. Personally I absolutely love tailwind, but then again, I have never been a big fan of bootstrap. It might a good idea to test it out in that throwaway app and see what you think.

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