How would you tackle missing knowledge of Symfony?

Hi. I have some question. I'm developer with 15 years of professional experiences. Not only php, but also C#, unity, js ecosystem including react, some python, lua, etc. In php i worked with custom MVC frameworks, a little bit of cakephp and codeigniter. I even have opensource project (driver library) with almost half million downloads on packagist. But i never worked on project with Symfony. When I'm looking for new job, it feels like everything is about symfony and laravel. I went through manual of both and laravel feels like is relying too much on magic under the hood. So i would go with symfony. But without experiences i feel like i cannot get job in php. I don't have time to create own project and learn it. What would you do?

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So I started tinkering with Livewire finally, and I understand the mechanics of it. I am actually really enjoying the workflow a lot and how it gives me some of the reactivity I am looking for in a more backend focused way. But I am curious if there's any general thoughts about how much Livewire is too much Livewire, when it comes to components on a page.

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I kind of fear if I continue developing in this manner I'll end up with a page that has 10, or more, components depending on the purpose/action of the page. So my question to the community and particularly to those who use a lot of Livewire. Does this feel problematic as far as a performance standpoint? Should my navigation bar really just be a single component with a bunch of methods in the livewire class for the different unrelated functions? Or is 10 or so livewire components on a page completely reasonable?

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Breeze: React (JSX) + Inertia + Laravel + NO Tailwind

Hey r/PHP ! (New here).

Quick question: Does anyone have a link to a starter kit, boilerplate, or public repo for Laravel + Inertia + React (JSX/JS) that sets up auth scaffolding (like Breeze) but comes without Tailwind CSS?

I'm looking to use vanilla CSS / CSS Modules and want to avoid the tedious process of manually removing all the Tailwind className attributes from the default Breeze components and all the UI add-ons. Just need a clean starting point with the routes and the auth but with minimal code and preferably not styling at all.

Any pointers to existing solutions or recomendations would be amazing!

Thanks you very much.

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