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I'm a software engineer and want to learn developing web applications with PHP and JavaScript. I'm familliar with C#, object oriented programming and working with frameworks.

So i decided to learn directly creating an web application based on a framework (Laravel, as we work with this framework on my work also). I start understanding how the framework works and as programming is not new for me i also understand the basics of PHP.

For the front-end i want to use Angular JS as i heard a lot of positive things about it. During my research on Google about Angular and Angular in combination with Laravel i read that we already have Angular V2 and V4.

I have a few questions about this:

  1. What is the best version to start with? This because i heared the good things about V1 (and the combi with Laravel), but V2 and V4 has a complete other concept? I'm a bit confused if it has the same purpose and if it is still a good approach to combine the newer versions with Laravel?
  2. I can find how to combine Laravel with AngularJS(1) and how to structure the project, but cant find a good tutorial or explaination how to combine/structure Laravel with Angular 2 or 4. This also confuses me.... Are the newer versions not a good combination with Laravel anymore?, Angular just uses Json API's so why not? or are i'm wrong.
  3. What i found about Laravel and the newer Angular versions is that it is a no-go to use both in 1 project. The advice is to use 2 different projects? I do not understand why as i can still make them independed from eachtoher in 1 project by a nice folder structure. So if this is true, what is the reason behind?
  4. If it is no problem to combine both in 1 project, i prefer to do this. But what is the best practice to add Angular into the Laravel project? especially for the folder structure? Is there a tutorial which describes how to use these 2 frameworks in 1 project?

I hope that someone can give me a "kickstart" how to start with increasing my skills.

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  • this is an opinion question... If you don't already know PHP, maybe you should learn a different language... if you were to write a front-end with Ember - and a backend with Node... then you would be using JavaScript on both, for example... I'd bet people will close this question. stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask Commented Jul 28, 2017 at 17:03
  • I hope not this question will be closed, and i know it is kindly a opinion question. But i just hope to find some advice where to start and i thought this could be the right place. I also hope that this question helps other people who are looking for a good kickstart for php/javascript development.(where my question goes about) Commented Jul 28, 2017 at 17:17
  • Questions asking us to recommend or find a book, tool, software library, tutorial or other off-site resource are off-topic for Stack Overflow as they tend to attract opinionated answers and spam. Instead, describe the problem and what has been done so far to solve it. Commented Jul 28, 2017 at 17:25

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I would suggest using Vue.js instead if you are familiar with new Laravel 5.x. It is supported by default and plays together pretty good.

https://learninglaravel.net/topics/vuejs

In my previous projects I used Laravel 3/4 + Backbone.js. Backbone, to me, is much better then diving into a full framework that your entire structure ( html + js ) depends on multiple custom tags etc. Backbone gives you a better approach on that case that you can use it partially in some modules etc or you can build your entire layout with it.

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I never heard about Vue(2), i just read something about it and looks very interesting and i wil defenitely give it a try. Doest it also support 2 way databinding and is it fast as Angular (as it seems to be very fast what i have seen)?
I believe so. I only used it once in a small part of an application and looked very promising. It is not very complicated like angular or ember yet seems powerful
yeah, Vuejs plays really well with Laravel, and still gives you most of the good stuff from angular

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