Lessons learned moving from WordPress to Laravel - Silvan Hagen

Silvan is a skilled WordPress consultant. He is one of the organizers of the WordPress meetup in Zürich and is also helping out at the WordCamp Switzerland. He will be sharing his experience and lessons learned from switching from WordPress to Laravel. Let's find out what road blocks he encountered on his way and how he could solve these problems with switching to a different framework. The following topics will be included: 📝 Reasons to switch (aka rebuild) 🕳️ Missing pieces in Laravel 🤒 Bloat in WordPress plugins 🚀 How to develop & ship quickly 🧪 Peace of mind with testing ✅ When to use what (personal opinion) 📹 Recorded from the following event: https://www.meetup.com/laravel-switze... 🐦 Silvan's Twitter:   / neverything   📝 Silvan's Homepage: https://silvanhagen.com 00:00 Introduction 00:24 Target Audience 00:48 Who Am I? 01:13 WordPress Experience 01:49 Growing Apart 03:00 Project One 05:45 Trying Laravel 07:05 Impressions 08:25 Import Challenges 10:09 Packages 12:00 Project Two 13:34 Deciding the Switch 15:31 Learning with Laravel 18:00 Best Practices 19:14 Loving Multiple Techs 20:41 WordPress Advantages 21:34 Q&A Session