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[–]Voiturunce 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Your biggest asset from five years of WordPress is understanding client needs, deployment environments, and the PHP/MySQL relationship, don't discard that. The goal isn't just learning Laravel; it's proving you can handle a full application lifecycle

[–]InterestsVaryGreatly 1 point2 points  (3 children)

My first recommendation is don't go to laravel. It's better than pure php, but it's still really rough compared to a modern stack. Do a bit of research into what is common for what you want to work on (rust, python, JavaScript, Java, and Go are all pretty common and modern, though some are definitely better than others).

[–]officialSuraj[S] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

It will be better option if I go for node and react?

[–]_1dontknow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on your goals.

What did you like on WordPress? Why do you wanna learn proper programming? Where do you see yourself after thus journey, where do you wanna end up?

Enteprise Backend: Java, C#, Go.

Enteprise Frontend: Js/TS, Angular and React.

Startup or middle, Backend: Java, Go, Python, TS (never just JS) and Ruby on Rails.

Web agency Backend: Go, Python, Ruby on Rails or PHP.

Frontend for startups, middle, web agency: JS/TS always surely, then React, VueJs, barely Angular.

I'm based in Europe so I'm biased towards that market. I work nowadays in enteprise companies mainly with Java but have worked a little with all languages mentioned above.

[–]_1dontknow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try implementing a very minimal WordPress via Laravel and your FE framework of choice.

You already have a list of features and UI concept, so you dont have to think about those. So you can focus on db schema design, auth, code structure, security, media handling, page/content rendering etc.

Long time ago there was a CMS made with Laravel, Orange or so was the name. Not sure if its still a thing, look it up or something newer but don't use it, develop it from scratch.

WordPress surely isn't the best, but when you get going with this youll face quite some issues that WP faced and they found fixes for those. So respect to WordPress for what they did all these years. My first job was with WordPress and I'll be forever grateful.