Livewire vs. Splade

[vast halo]

I apologise in advance if mentioning Splade here on a Livewire server offends anyone.

I am trying to architect a new Laravel Code Generator and thinking about whether I should use Livewire or Splade as the SPA integration.

I would rather not choose one and then discover further down the line that the other would have been a better choice, so I was wondering if anyone could give me a steer on what the pros and cons of each are.

Thanks.

[empty harbor]

Pretty much easy to convince you that with

Livewire -> everything is in Laravel PHP side, you won't have to worry about learning Vuejs/and or other frontend frameworks.

Splade -> if you still want to use Vue/Inertia.js

[harsh echo]

Livewire is in the official Laravel docs and is well documented. I find write very little JS compared to what I used to.

[vast halo]

Thanks for the replies so far, which are in essence Livewire pros.

I don't plan to write much js (though I can if I need to). I am looking to use as many pre-written components as possible (rather than write components myself) and the Vue community seems to have a lot more open source components than Livewire. Of course, integrating pre-written Vue componentsb into Splade may be non trivial, so this is why I am asking.

I am going to get some input from people who have experience of both and can give me comparative pros and cons based on their experiences.

[elfin ice]

I’ve worked with Vue and Livewire and I would always go for Livewire. Cannot really give any reasons why other then that Livewire is just awesome.

[vast halo]

Do you have examples of Vue components you used that you would have had to create for yourself in Livewire or where you had to create Livewire components yourself?

Also, I am explicitly asking for a comparison of Livewire and Splade and not Livewire and native Vue or Livewire and Inertia/Vue.

[elfin ice]

I created a instagram lookalike, so I got for example an easy picture carousel that works on phone and web for Vue, however such thing also existed for AlpineJS used with Livewire. There are a lot of components prebuild for Vue but the good part about Livewire is that it is really easy to make your own components aswell, meening that even if it does not exists yet, its not that much of a pain to create them yourself.

[elfin ice]

I have not worked with Splade so I can't really tell u much about that I'm sorry!

[vast halo]

So I need to look at the components provided by AlpineJs because they effectively come with Livewire (esp. in LW V3 which will have better AlpineJs integration)?

[elfin ice]

Yes, https://alpinejs.dev/components + https://laravel-livewire.com/docs/2.x/alpine-js

[vast halo]

Thanks. I'll take a look at those later.

[elfin ice]

In the end its all about what u feel like gives u the best energy to start developing haha, I hope you find what you are looking for!

[vast halo]

Actually my vision is way too large for me to create by myself. My aim is to code the basic core and proof of concept, and then try to build a community to flesh it out.