Making the case for Laravel as a Next.js alternative

That was a good read. I tend to believe that Nextjs is a tool for frontend developers who want to build a full-stack app and Laravel is a tool for backend developers that want to build a full-stack app as well.

In my opinion the perfect combination would be to use Next.js for the frontend and Laravel for the backend as an API.

It's neat that the article presents Laravel as an alternative, but the audience seems to be JS / node devs here. I'm a JS dev and haven't touched PHP since around 2010 when I was at Yahoo and they started to move to node.js.

The article needs to have a better section on why move to PHP and use Laravel. There's overhead in learning both a language and a framework, and "PHP also does it" isn't a compelling enough argument for me.