127: Jonathan Reinink - Building Modern Monoliths with Inertia.js

In this episode of Full Stack Radio, I talked to Jonathan Renick about using inertia JS to create single page application experiences without abandoning tried and tested server side application development workflows. This is Full Stack Radio episode 127. Hey, everyone. Welcome to another episode of the Full Stack Radio podcast. I'm your host, Adam Wadden. And today, it is my pleasure to welcome back to the show, I think, the number one recurring guest of all time, Jonathan Reinink. How is it going, dude? It's going awesome, Adam. How are you? I am doing great. So, the reason I wanna have you on the show today is last time that we talked, we talked we did this episode. I think it was episode one zero eight, client side rendering server side routing, where we talked a bunch about this approach that you had been exploring for building, like, sort of traditional Laravels or Rails, whatever apps, you know, with, like, your controllers and doing your database queries and preparing all your data for your views and stuff, but instead of doing, what I think a lot of us have done in the past, which is use like a blade view in Laravel maybe with like some view components mixed in, just deciding to go all in on a library like Vue or React for the the front end. So literally no server generated markup, everything's kind of done on the client so that all the UI lives in sort of one, you know, approach, but not like throwing out the baby with the bathwater, you know, and, like, having to create an SPA and then create an API and worry about all that because really you're just trying to build a regular app, you just want the UI to feel responsive and interactive and kind of high fidelity. So that's kind of where we ended up last time, and this was kind of you were just kind of doing that with some DIY sort of stuff, you know, just you wrote a blog post about it that we linked in the episode that sort of explained the setup and how you kind of had things organized, but since then you've sort of taken things to the next level and looked for ways to sort of optimize this workflow and built like a whole library around it now called inertia JS, which is taking the world by storm. So I thought it'd be awesome to to sort of make this episode sort of like the canonical inertia JS, conversation and really, talk about what it is, what problems it tries to solve, where you're trying to go with it in the future, and what's there now, what people have been doing with it. So, I guess maybe the best place to start would be talking about, like, what inertia. Js actually is, what problems does it try to solve, especially with in comparison to the approach that we talked about …