A comprehensive talk about Inertia.js and how it enables building modern monolithic applications with Laravel and frontend frameworks like Vue. The speaker explains how Inertia works under the hood, demonstrates partial page reloads, shares data between components, and shows practical examples of implementing Inertia in Laravel applications. The talk includes live coding demos showing how to optimize page loads and handle data transfers between frontend and backend.
Freek Van der Herten presents Laravel Data, a package that allows developers to create powerful data objects with a single definition that can be used for multiple purposes like form requests, API resources, and TypeScript definitions. He demonstrates how the package reduces code duplication in complex applications and previews new features coming in Laravel Data v4, including improved TypeScript integration and route helper functions.