Is Filament PHP a Good Fit for a TripAdvisor-Like Project?
I'm thinking doing a TripAdvisor clone toy project and wondering if Filament PHP would help simplify development without getting in the way. Would it work well for something with user reviews, listings, and interactive features, or would straight up Livewire be a better option?
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Depends on how feature rich you want to go.
If it is a simple little professional development app where the primary goal is to learn, do it yourself to learn how to do all the bits. It'll be clunky as hell, but you will get MUCH more out of the experience and a greater respect for the Filament team's work.
If it is work for a client, Filament makes data tables super easy. Do yourself a favor and buy the lifetime unlimited projects advanced tables plugin, makes it so much better and you can include the cost in the client invoice.
Hey @J H thanks for the reply! Just out of curiosity, would the advanced tables plugin help with a tripadvisor clone where most of the UI is not table heavy? If so, how?
I use is in my large apps. IMO:
- It makes the filters so much better and user friendly while giving you so much more flexibility.
- the ability to reorder columns has been a major requirements in my apps (maybe not so much for a trip advisor)
- the filter view manager is AMAZING and would fit in so well with your trip advisor. This would let you add global favorites like "Hot deal" and such dead easy!!!!
I am a huge fan and so glad we bought it. WELL worth shelling out for the unlimited projects version as once you use it you will never look back (I am in no way sponsored just a huge fan).
@Kenneth Sese is really active on here (there is a discord channel for it) as well and has helped me a ton while I have been learning it.
@Kenneth Sese is really active on here (there is a discord channel for it) as well and has helped me a ton while I have been learning it.