Livewire existing and working so much simpler than the status quo really deserves attention.

Leave it to PHP oldheads to continue to make dummy simple stuff that works well for decades. It's amusing to watch everyone reinvent everything every decade while the actual responsiveness of the UI that humans must interact with doesn't ever seem to get faster. Now we wait a few seconds for air vents in cars to adjust because it's all done with laggy, bloated software that was poorly-architected even though it has tens of cores and dozens of GHz of CPU and many many FLOPS of GPU behind it.

I don’t use php much, I was recently researching a few parameters of how I needed an app to be structured and maintained, and after neutralizing any bias towards verbose or complex and brittle setups maintenance wise (which can happen with things like Javascript), it was interesting to see how many things popped up that were worth and work and maintain, after neutralizing the bias towards the rest.

Simple scales, complex tends to fail.

The livewire technology in Laravel though seems at least one order of magnitude simpler for the same baseline effectiveness or more that I’ve seen in many popular stacks.