What is Laravel Livewire?

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Laravel Livewire is a full-stack framework for building dynamic, reactive UIs using PHP and Blade — without writing JavaScript. Each Livewire component is a PHP class with a Blade view. Public properties are automatically data-bound: changes in the browser trigger PHP method calls via AJAX, and updated properties re-render the Blade view. Directives: wire:model (two-way data binding), wire:click (click handler), wire:submit, wire:loading. Features: real-time validation, file uploads, pagination, polling, URL query parameters, flash messages. Livewire allows building complex interactive UIs (search-as-you-type, modal forms, data tables) entirely in PHP. It is the server-side alternative to Vue/React for teams that prefer PHP. Works seamlessly with Alpine.js for additional client-side interactivity.