Laravel for MVPs: Why I chose Laravel over Next.js for Huzzler

I just added promotional emails to Huzzler and reminded myself why I use Laravel and why it beats the javascript ecosystem for so many tasks.

• Integrate with Resend in 3 mins
• Queue mails with rate limiting and auto retries
• Write templates in markdown and use variables from my models

Sure php is an "ugly" language and sure you can do the same in Next.js but you'd need 20 external dependencies and manage them all.

In Laravel, you also have (out of the box):

• Queue workers: background jobs
• Task scheduler: Cron jobs without touching crontab
• Mail system: Supports multiple drivers, markdown templates, queuing built in
• Built-in notification system: Email, sms, slack,.. whatever
• Eloquent ORM: Arguably the best ORM out there
• Authentication: social logins, 2FA,... you name it
• Database migrations

While most js devs are out there in dependency hell, Laravel developers are shipping features.