Be part of JetBrains PHPverse 2026 on June 9 – a free online event bringing PHP devs worldwide together.
So I'm creating a new website for a variety of purposes. Maybe in the future i'll want some functionality that Spark has to offer.
Should I go ahead start it in Laravel, add spark later when needed? Or is this really difficult to add later on? Should I then in that case better start from a Spark installation from the beginning?
You're definitely better off starting with Spark from the beginning. In the docs (https://spark.laravel.com/docs/1.0/faq#existing) it says its not intended to be integrated into an existing application. I've done it and while it is possible it took a lot of time modifying the existing code to make it all work together nicely. I've since started a fresh Spark application and its much easier to built on top of it than to try to add Spark after the fact.
Please or to participate in this conversation.