If you're a back-ender and need to create a project quickly with just some dynamic elements on the page, Livewire is probably your best solution. It doesn't take you outside of the comfort zone of Laravel: you kind of continue writing back-end Laravel code, creating PHP classes and Blade files. So, for Laravel developers adopting Livewire is typically faster than Inertia. Inertia comes with a prerequisite: you need to be familiar with the front-end like Vue or React. So, it is by definition more complicated and requires more knowledge than Livewire. Compare the sequence of actions. Setup of Livewire:
- Install the Livewire package via composer
- Add 2 Blade directives into the main layout
- Install the Inertia package via composer
- Add 2 Blade directives into the main layout
- Setup Inertia middleware
- Install client-side adapters: npm install @inertiajs/inertia @inertiajs/inertia-vue3
- Update the main resources/js/app.js with createInertiaApp() method