Before we dive deeper into Laravel Vapor allow me to set the stage for you. I’ve been working in the PHP ecosystem since I was 15 years old. Given that I’m 33 now it means I have a solid 18 years of PHP/MYSQL development behind me. I love PHP. From the moment I created my own makeshift CMS, I fell in love with it. It felt like magic to me.
As time moved on I learned HTML/CSS/JS, Linux server management, AWS, fancy new tools, overly complicated and “modern” ways of developing things… I’ve also lived through many many frameworks and boilerplates that make your job as a developer easier. The only ones that caught my eye were Bootstrap and Laravel. I discovered Bootstrap on the brink of the responsive design revolution and loved it ever since because it wasn’t trying to do much. You get the basics but you can still do whatever you want without much hassle. Laravel felt the same to me. I watched people use Laravel for at least a year before developing with it in version 5. What attracted me the most were migrations. It felt revolutionary that I could write the entire SQL schema in PHP and be able to track table changes in GIT. The second thing that I was obsessed with was Queues. All in all, probably the best career choice I could have made was learning Laravel. It’s just a joy to work with. Understandable syntax. Great features. Customizable.
