The Modern Monolith: Laravel + Inertia.js

For a long time, the industry trended toward headless architectures: a separate React/Vue SPA talking to a Laravel API. While powerful, this introduces complexity in state management, routing, and deployment.

Enter Inertia.js

Inertia allows you to build single-page apps (SPAs) without building an API. You return standard Laravel views, but they are Vue components. It is the best of both worlds.

• Routing: Define routes in web.php, not JS.
• Controllers: Pass data directly to props. No API transformers needed.
• Auth: Standard Laravel session auth. No JWT headaches.

For 90% of SaaS applications and internal tools, this stack provides a velocity that is hard to beat.