The past and future of Livewire
Yoooo. Caleb (creator of Livewire) here, I've been in a hole for the past few months dreaming up the future of Livewire and am going to show it to you all on stage at Laracon US in four days. I can not express how pumped I am. Livewire version 3 was a big step forward for Livewire. It was a complete rewrite of the framework. It took me almost two years to build. We've come a long way since then. When it was released (at Laracon 2023), there were 26k daily composer installs. Now, there are 85k ! As great as Livewire is right now, there are two problems that keep me up at night: People are confused and frustrated by having too many options when it comes to component structure (Traditional class-based, Volt class-based, and Volt functional). Livewire allows you to build an app in record speed, but if you don't know some of the ins and outs, you can end up with pages that feel slow and laggy. These two points are my problem statement for Livewire versio...
