Is livewire is suitable for building large scalable application?

I was given a new project by the company in which I am currently working.

But, before that I was asked that if Laravel with Livewire will be suitable for large scalable project. So, they ask me to research and I have found some article about that the Livewire performance on local server is great but in production it works terrible.

My Project overview

The project is something like videoask -> https://www.videoask.com/ but, for different purpose

So,

Should I use Laravel with livewire to create that project? Is livewire is capable of handling large scalable application? If not should I have use something else like Laravel with Vue?

I need help to make a decision as I the management asked me research and make a final decision before starting the project

rodrigo.pedra

3 years ago

Level 56

Yes it is. I've used it on fairly large project that provides educational contents for lots of schools.

Most of the complaints I read about it is due to people not using some features properly. For example, in a large form it is advisable to use lazy or deferred updating to avoid hitting the server on every keystroke.

Also I've seen people relaying on state stored on the server side for some UI related stuff, such as showing a dropdown menu. Don't do this, use either AlpineJS, or jQuery or whatever to handle such UI behaviors.

Every tech if abused can become a hassle to work with.

One tip I can give is: ask your employer to pay for their screen casts contents. Most of the screencasts are free, but some more advanced one requires you to be a paid Livewire sponsor on GitHub .

https://laravel-livewire.com/screencasts

This will help you a lot with some small tweaks on how to use Livewire correctly, and how to handle things like modal state. Price is a bit steep (at least here in Brazil), but the contents are worth it.

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