📺 Demo:
The Problem
Recently, I faced the challenge of creating a product filter with full SEO indexing support.
The website was built as a multipage Laravel project, but one specific page — the product listing — needed to be fully reactive.
When users clicked on the filters, the following had to happen dynamically without a full page reload:
- The list of products had to update based on the selected filters.
- The URL, page title, and meta tags had to change to reflect the new filter state.
- New filter URLs had to be generated so that each combination could be indexed by search engines.
This required a careful balance:
• Full SSR rendering for SEO and crawlers
• Smooth, reactive UX
• Avoid bloating the stack with a complex SPA framework
Filtering Implementation: Comparing Approaches
I compared several frontend strategies:
Approach | SSR-Compatible | SEO-Friendly | UX | Dev Complexity | Verdict |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Full page reloads | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ❌ Poor UX | ✅ Simple | ❌ Unacceptable UX |
Alpine + AJAX | ❌ No | ❌ No | ✅ Good | ✅ Simple | ❌ Breaks SEO + SSR |
Vue/Nuxt/Inertia | ✅* Partial | ✅/❌ Mixed | ✅ Excellent | ❌ High | ❌ Overkill for one page |
Livewire 3 | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Excellent | ✅ Moderate | ✅ Best balance |
⚠️ Why Vue/Nuxt Wasn’t the Right Fit
While Nuxt (or Inertia) can technically do SSR, it requires:
- A separate Node server to handle SSR requests
- Complex hydration pipelines
- Custom routing sync between Laravel and frontend
- Extra effort to generate localized meta tags
Too heavy for a single page. Too complex to maintain.
Why I Chose Livewire 3
After evaluating the options, Livewire 3 emerged as the best balance:
- Full SSR support – no compromises on SEO
- Seamless dynamic updates – updates the UI smoothly without full page reloads
- No extra JS stack or Node server needed – stays within the Laravel ecosystem
- Lean and maintainable – avoids bloating the stack with unnecessary complexity
This choice was crucial because I wanted to keep the Laravel ecosystem lean, avoiding unnecessary complexity for a single page, while ensuring that both SEO and UX remain first-class.
In Part 2, I’ll show you the filter architecture and its components.
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