Modern Deployment for Laravel and WordPress
It's the fourth and final episode of our series exploring Laravel. Brian takes us through the deployment process using Laravel Forge and AWS. Aurooba discusses "modern" WordPress development and how WordPress solutions like SpinupWP compare to tools like Netlify and Forge.
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- Laravel Forge - https://forge.laravel.com/
- Spinup WP - https://spinupwp.com/
- Brian's website – https://www.briancoords.com
- Aurooba's website – https://aurooba.com
- (00:00) - S02E04 - Laravel pt 4
- (00:07) - Our Completed Laravel App
- (02:34) - Tailwind and Colors
- (04:56) - AlpineJS and Package Bloat
- (07:57) - Single Page Apps on Laravel
- (09:43) - Brian's Three Open Terminals
- (11:52) - Scaffolds and CLIs in WordPress
- (15:03) - Handling Build Assets in your Deployment
- (18:36) - Deployment - Forge (and SpinupWP)
- (24:25) - Connecting AWS to Forge
- (27:44) - Automated Git Deployments
- (31:20) - Git vs SFTP in Managed WordPress Hosting
- (34:33) - Other cool things like queues
- (37:14) - Final Thoughts
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Aurooba Ahmed
(she/her) Developer building bespoke #WordPress solutions, tools, and blocks. My name is pronounced "oo-ROO-ba" — Default to kindness, folks.
