Design Engineering at Laravel: Jason Beggs on Building Laravel Cloud

About this episode

Matt Stauffer interviews Jason Beggs about his role in building Laravel Cloud and the intricacies of design engineering at Laravel.

The Laravel Podcast is brought to you by Tighten, your friendly neighborhood Laravel experts. Check us out at tighten.com and also by other sponsors you will hear about later in the episode. Matt Stauffer talks with Jason Beggs, staff software engineer at Laravel and the design engineer behind the Laravel Cloud front end. Jason shares how he unexpectedly became “the Tailwind guy”—and how that path led him to helping build one of the most talked-about products in the PHP world. They get into what design engineering actually looks like at Laravel: working closely with designers, building in React (even when it’s not your favorite), using AI to handle big refactors, and what it’s like to create a product you’re also the perfect user for. Matt Stauffer on X Jason Beggs on X Jason Beggs’s Website You Might Not Need an Effect Epic React Expose Laravel Twitter Laravel Website Tighten Website Suggestion Box ----- Editing and transcription sponsored by Tighten - https://tighten.com/ Big thanks to the companies that support the show: Honeybadger Mailtrap Thunk Laravel - Laracon US and Laravel Cloud

People in this episode

Host: Matt Stauffer

Guest: Jason Beggs

Topics covered

• design engineering
• Laravel Cloud
• software development
• React
• AI in development
• product design

Keywords

• Laravel
• design engineering
• React
• AI
• software development
• Laravel Cloud
• Tailwind

Sponsors

Tighten

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Laravel, Honeybadger, Mailtrap, Thunk, Laravel - Laracon US, Laravel Twitter, Laravel Website, Tighten Website, Suggestion Box

Products: Laravel Cloud

Books & works: Epic React

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