Laravel Worldwide Meetup - Blaze Demo + Launch Party

Livewire Creator Caleb Porzio joins us to show off and launch Laravel Blaze. Blaze is a package that massively speeds up your Laravel apps by making your Blade components super fast, like sometimes 10x faster. Come hang out while Caleb shows you the ins and outs, some pretty impressive benchmarks, and hits the launch button! Timestamps: 2:17 - Introduction 3:35 - Community Resources: https://laravel-news.com/ / https://podcast.laravel-news.com/ - Explore the Laravel News site & podcast for the latest updates and discussions https://laravelpodcast.com/ - Laravel and PHP discussions with Matt Stauffer https://larajobs.com/ - The official Laravel Job Board https://laracasts.com - A great platform to check out to build your Laravel skills https://community.laravel.com/ - Find upcoming Laravel conferences and events here https://laravel.com/stories - Laravel is looking to feature developers from every corner of the Community - submit your stories here! 5:42 - Host Sponsor - Reach out at [email protected] 5:56 - JetBrains Giveaway - please use the QR code at the end of the meetup! Enter anytime before March 3rd for a chance to win one of two JetBrains coupons 6:16 - Caleb Porzio’s Introduction 10:08 - Caleb’s Slides Begin 10:15 - Flux/Blade is slow… why, and what to do? 14:12 - How fast should a page load? 16:24 - Let’s look at some performance metrics 23:09 - How Blade works under the hood 27:28 - How to install Blaze 28:51 - Some restrictions on using Blaze 30:21 - How does Blaze Work? 30:28 - Optimized Compiler 33:01 - Memoization 37:14 - Code Folding 39:18 - Partial code folding 45:33 - See Blaze in action 49:38 - Watch Caleb push Blaze to production live! https://blazephp.dev/ 51:20 - Q & A with Caleb 1:19:44 - End slides Thank you to our guest: - Caleb Porzio, follow him on X (https://x.com/calebporzio) & check out his website: https://calebporzio.com/ for more info on what he’s up to! Sign up for reminders to stay up to date on the latest events @ https://meetup.laravel.com Follow our co-hosts: - Margaret Tavares on X (https://x.com/margarettavares) & LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/margarettavares/) - Dan Soppelsa on X (https://x.com/dansoppelsa) & LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dansoppelsa/) Follow us on Bluesky: - LWWM on Bluesky (https://bsky.app/profile/laravelwwmeetup.bsky.social) Looking for work? These companies are hiring: - Highlights for Children: https://workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/default/mdf/recruitment/recruitment.html?cid=258dbb61-c175-47e0-a803-9668d519ef62&ccId=19000101_000001&type=MP&lang=en_US&jobId=580048 - MicroVentures (Limited to candidates living in Texas only): https://jobs.lever.co/microventures - Donatos (Limited to candidates living in Columbus only): https://www.workstream.us/j/dcc1a510/donatos-pizza/columbus-28958/full-stack-php-developer-1097c3e8?referer_source=Linkedin