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Hey friends, lots of new things are going on in my life and I don't have time to tell you about all of them, so I'm just going to pick one. You know what, I'll preview all of them and then I'll tell you specifically about one Alpine is popping off. Um, I think it's hilarious how I put a year of my life, like full time weeks into Livewire.

And worked so hard on this thing. And then Alpine, I just kind of like farted out and it's probably going to be way more popular than live where it's like the universe is cruel joke on me. Um. But it's not, it's not entirely accurate because a, I basically wrote Alpine for Livewire. You know, like I, I had already learned how to write a front end framework, so it was really easy for me to write.

And it came out of months and months and months and months of just kind of like chipping away at a problem. And then, I don't know, the solution just kinda hit me all at once. Um, and Alpine is in the JavaScript community and who doesn't love a new JavaScript framework? Like, Oh, it's crazy. You want to be rich and famous.

Just build a JavaScript framework and everybody will think it's the hotness for awhile. We'll see if it stands the test of time. I mean, I think it will, um, because it is different than it's been. It's the stimulus killer. Like if you've used stimulus, I hate stimulus stimulus sucks. Um, I'm sorry that that was rash of me.

Stimulus is great in its, uh, ethos and philosophy, but if you ever wrote it, it was LA, LA, LA, LA, LA LA. I do not like it. So Alpine in my mind is the stimulus killer. Um, so I've been refactoring people's stimulus code to Alpine and haven't really run across any shortcomings yet. I mean, stimulus is so simple and dumb anyway.

Like it's, it does even more than it. So. Anyway, enough trashing stimulus and hyping my own thing. If you're interested in Alpine, go check it out. It's pretty exciting. Okay. That's Alpine. Um, Oh. Which by the way, is the new name for project decks. If you didn't follow that at some point, cause I realized I didn't record any episodes since I talked about project ducks, but that's that.

So live wire onto Livewire. Um, I am very excited about live where I'm going to be launching 1.0 at Laracon us in fee or lyric on online in February, and that's going to be pretty great. And, uh, but basically, so what I want is to get it, I want to build an app with it personally and get it to where I want it to be.

Um. And then launch 1.0 so now I'm in that phase where like, okay, I have to start building things myself with it and putting them out there. So I'm going to create like inertia has pink CRM. It's like a little sample app you can download. It's written with inertia. Livewire needs, something like that for sure.

And I've wanted to do it for a long time, but I've just, you know, kicked the can down the road. Well, I'm, I'm now, I'm drinking from the can. Is that the proper metaphor? So that's what we're going to do. I'm going to create an application. And it's going to be open sourced and it's going to be my idea of what a perfect application written or what perfect live way or whatever.

How I would write an application with live where it, my goal is to make it your everyday average layer of El app with tables and forms and modals and dropdowns and slide outs and. Date pickers and blah, blah, blah. Maybe some comments, maybe some real time chat, maybe some infinite scrolling, maybe some deferred loading.

There are tons of opportunities there, and I may a record screencasts about the whole process and put them into a course or a paid subscription thing like Livewire casts. Because, uh, your homeboy has to make some loot on Livewire pretty soon before he goes broke, or his wife kicks him out of the house and makes him get a real job at a local Costco.

Um, so barring that event, uh. We'll see what I'm going to do with that. So keep your eye out for that. It's actual