dotall 2025 Lison: Craft goes Laravel
Craft 6 will be Laravel
The biggest announcement from the Pixel & Tonic team was that Craft CMS will be switching frameworks, away from Yii and to Laravel with its 6.0 release. The plan to do this had been announced 2 years ago but during the workshop on Tuesday the team layed out their roadmap and plans for future compatibility. Where the previous idea was a phase release, they updated their plans and announced that 6.0 will be fully Laravel - you can read the official announcement here.
I’m quite excited for this change as to will probably open Craft CMS and it’s ecosystem up to a much larger audience of developers and agencies. And the other way around, we in the community can build our projects on top of a better maintained and evolving platform. Looking forward to what the future will bring!
On stage: Data + Craft
I was very happy to have my proposal for a talk selected for the conference this year and in the first day I took the stage to talk about how we - at Statik - handle projects that depend on lots of data, focussing strategies and ways-of-working the handle both incoming data (migration vs synchronization) and outgoing data (exporting data to external systems).
I had demo’d my presentation over a lunch break at the office about a month before the conference, and while it was far from finished, the feedback my coworkers gave really brought it to higher level 🙂. I was a bit nervous but once I got on stage that went away quickly and I quite happy with how it went. Afterwards I got lots of positive feedback and extra question from the audience, which I turn got me meeting some new people in the community 🙂
The biggest take away from my talk and the questions afterwards was - for me - that sharing how we build projects (not just the code also we structure things in the CMS itself) can very interesting and I think it would be a neat submit for a workshop in smaller groups.