DEV Community: Aleksey Baturin

I built svg4.ru — a high-performance SVG icons platform on Laravel 12

Aleksey Baturin — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 08:21:20 +0000

Hi dev.to 👋
I want to share a project I’ve been building and running in production.

🔗 https://svg4.ru

svg4.ru is a large SVG icons and vector graphics platform focused on speed, simplicity, and scale.

🚀 Tech stack

Laravel 12

Meilisearch for instant full-text search

MySQL — over 1,000,000+ records

Tailwind CSS 4

Alpine.js

Clean, minimal JavaScript (no heavy frontend frameworks)

Despite the data size, the site works blazingly fast:

instant search

fast filtering

low response times even under load

This project is very engineering-focused: performance, indexing strategy, caching, clean architecture, and predictable behavior at scale.

🧠 What this project demonstrates

Laravel can handle million-scale datasets without pain

Meilisearch is a great alternative to Elasticsearch for real-world apps

You don’t need React/Vue for fast, interactive UIs

Tailwind 4 + Alpine.js is a powerful and pragmatic combo

👀 I’d love your feedback

If you’re interested, please:

check out the site

try the search

explore the UI

share feedback or suggestions

🤝 Open to collaboration

If you:

want to build a similar platform

need help with PHP / Laravel / Node.js

work with Tailwind 4, Alpine.js

care about performance, architecture, and scalability

I’ll be happy to collaborate or help.

📬 Telegram: @bau_59

Thanks for reading — feedback is very welcome 🙌

Why Forums Still Matter in 2025

Aleksey Baturin — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 06:00:41 +0000

These days it feels like everyone has moved to Telegram. Chats are buzzing, questions are solved in minutes, and long discussions seem almost old-fashioned. So you might wonder: why do we even need forums anymore? Aren’t they outdated?

As someone who recently worked on updating a large professional forum for industrial climbers, I can say with confidence: forums are still very much needed.

Think of it this way. A chat is like a lively kitchen conversation — fast, noisy, fun, but anything useful gets buried within hours. Try finding something discussed a month ago in a chat… good luck scrolling.

A forum works differently. It’s more like a library and a community club combined.

Information doesn’t disappear.
A detailed repair guide, a review of a new rope, a breakdown of common mistakes — all of it stays neatly organized. You search → you find → you get a real answer, not fragments of old messages.
A real community forms.
People write thoughtfully, discussions grow naturally, and over time strong experts become recognizable. You can see a user’s history, style, experience — something chats simply don’t preserve.
Work and hiring become easier.
On Alp4.ru, for example, the job section is incredibly active. Employers aren’t just picking a random “username” — they see someone with a reputation and actual contributions. That kind of trust doesn’t exist in chat streams.

So yes — forums are alive. They’ve just taken their rightful niche: a place where knowledge accumulates instead of evaporating.

And if your professional community doesn’t have such a “knowledge hub” yet — or you have an old, buggy forum that desperately needs attention — that can be fixed. I help choose, install, configure, and fine-tune modern forum platforms like Discourse Telegram bau_59. From structure and design to moderation rules and migration of old data — everything can be done properly so the forum becomes a real home for your community.

A forum in 2025 isn’t outdated. It’s order, depth, and a working environment without chaos.

🚀 100 out of 100 on Google PageSpeed — in production!

Aleksey Baturin — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 10:29:20 +0000

Yes, it's real.
Yes, on a live site.
No paid CDN, no hacks, no AMP. Just clean optimization.

The project svg4.ru is a large-scale SVG icon catalog with filters, images, and dynamic components — and it flies.

👉 Want to learn how to do the same?
Follow me — I’ll break it down step by step:

essential server settings

Laravel + Vite performance tips

optimizing fonts, SVGs, cache, and lazy-loading

what truly affects FCP, LCP, and CLS

and most importantly — what not to do

📌 The next post will drop once we hit 100 followers.
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