To use Angular with Laravel, you can create a frontend interface in Angular and create a backend API in Laravel with MySQL or NoSQL databases. We build an Angular Application front-end interface and then call an API to store the data. This is just a basic Item Storage Application using Angular and Laravel.
AngularJS is a structural framework for dynamic web apps. It lets you use HTML as your template language and lets you extend HTML's syntax to express your application's components clearly and succinctly. AngularJS's data binding and dependency injection eliminate much of the code you would otherwise have to write.
If you're wondering whether you can use PHP alongside Angular, the answer is yes. But Angular will still need a separate client-server architecture. In general, PHP runs on the server-side while Angular runs on the client-side.
AngularJS is a front end framework and Laravel is a backend framework, comparing them is like comparing apples to bicycles. Seriously though: Authentication and database access are fundamentally backend procedures.
There are two ways to combine these frameworks:
Only client-side rendering
This is the easier way and used by most web applications. In this case you would use Laravel as an API endpoint which will return JSON. Angular can query this data through its $http
or $resource
service and compile the templates, which you store in the public folder. Angular templates are just HTML with directives and some {{var}} statements. This way Angular does all the routing too.
Server-side and client-side rendering
This is the harder way where Laravel would do the routing and compile some templates on the server-side. You would use Angular only for some interactions on the site in a way you would use jQuery for example. The benefit of this approach is performance as users will get the full HTML the first time they visit your site. The disadvantage is that you may have to write some logic twice and can’t use some of Angular’s features.
To actually benefit from most of angular's features you should write a Single Page Application. This means you will communicate with the server through web APIs and you won't have any Laravel server-side templates.
So yes, you should write two decoupled applications. One client-side, using Angular and one server-side that exposes a web API, preferably RESTful.
This way you could switch from JS/HTML/CSS on the client side to Flash or Silverlight or something else and from Laravel/PHP/MySQL to .NET or NodeJS or Meteor/MongoDB.
Sergiu is correct, but in some cases Laravel still offers benefits that cannot be achieved with client-side templates. This is related to SEO and WCAG (accessibility).
AngularJS renders content by way of DOM manipulation so search engines cannot determine what content is shown after those manipulations are complete. This is also the case for screen readers. For this reason some content must be delivered by way of server-side view constructs. That is why Wordpress and Laravel have long and healthy futures.
On the back-end or in cases where SEO and WCAG are not important, data binding client side templates such as those used with AngularJS and Ember will be used increasingly as more developers learn how to use them.
In terms of whether to use AngularJS or Laravel for view constructs it would be best to learn how to use both and apply where most appropriate.
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