I've been working with Magento for years, but for side projects I used CodeIgniter. When Laravel was released, I switched and thought: It would be nice to create a Magento shop within the Laravel ecosystem! So, in 2020, I created a proof of concept: some Laravel models on top of the Magento database, with a frontend using Laravel Blade templates and some basic styling with Tailwind CSS. The result compared to Magento? Super fast product pages! Next up: category pages. These need filtering, sorting, etc. preferably without page refreshes. Magento requires Elasticsearch (since 2.4.8, only…