New Laravel-Related Offerings Include Octane Alternative

There were big Laravel-related announcements this week. First, the Laravel team has released Laravel Wayfinder in beta. It’s a new package to bridge the gap between a TypeScript frontend and a Laravel backend.

“It automatically generates fully typed, importable TypeScript functions for your controllers and routes — so you can call your Laravel endpoints directly in your client code just like any other function,” the Wayfinder repository explained. “No more hardcoding URLs, guessing route parameters, or syncing backend changes…