If you are like me and are in search of a forums solution for a website and you want the option to write in PHP with Laravel from the backend with database and on the front end with React than this post might be able to help you. Today is Wed Oct 22 2025 and my son had surgery to remove this tonsil and I had to stay home. I woke up early this morning because I couldn't sleep, I needed to find a solution for my forums website. You see, I spent alot of time writing code for an application that uses a Virtual Machine in Linux with Apache, PHP, MYSQL, HTML, CSS and ofcouse Javascript. The Javascript library I used for the AJAX is Jquery version 1 and up to this day it has been working fine. Amazing! But I do need to upgrade. I tried to find solutions like a WPA with and API but that project is not going well, I am 70% complete on that, but I think I can move faster by using the laravel framework now with version 12 because I can use a Linux VM with Apache, PHP, SQLite or MySQL and javascript has improved much better that I dont need jquery because there are tools like Inertia that come with laravel makes the website perform better.
These are the condidates I could find