Laravel and Blade Power a Lean Marketing Site With No Framework or CDN
A development team built a public marketing site using Laravel, Blade templates, Tailwind 4, and Vite 8, deliberately avoiding front-end frameworks, a CDN, and any headless CMS. The site's public pages deliver just 17.4 KB of compressed JavaScript and CSS, achieved by splitting the Vite config into separate entries to prevent the React product bundle from loading on marketing pages. A PageSpeed audit conducted in August 2026 returned scores of 99 for performance and 100 for accessibility, best practices, and SEO on mobile. Content is managed through Eloquent models stored in PostgreSQL and administered via a Filament panel, rather than a flat-file or headless CMS. The team emphasised that performance constraints were enforced at the build level rather than through documentation, making them structurally impossible to accidentally bypass.
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