# Laravel Livewire

7 Hacker News commenters recommended Laravel Livewire and 2 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 5 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend Livewire as a much simpler way to build reactive PHP apps than the usual JavaScript-heavy approach, and as the default choice for most applications.

## Why people recommend it

- Much simpler than the status quo (2 comments): "Livewire existing and working so much simpler than the status quo really deserves attention." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49280346)) "seems at least one order of magnitude simpler for the same baseline effectiveness" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49293076))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Ruby on Rails](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ruby-on-rails.md): 337 recommend
- [Django](https://hackerapproved.com/p/django.md): 277 recommend
- [Next.js](https://hackerapproved.com/p/next-js.md): 127 recommend
- [Phoenix Framework](https://hackerapproved.com/p/phoenix.md): 85 recommend
- [Laravel](https://hackerapproved.com/p/laravel.md): 71 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Laravel Livewire", https://hackerapproved.com/p/livewire/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).