★ Typed routes from Laravel to React with Wayfinder

I've been writing about There There a lot lately. It's a helpdesk we're building at Spatie, born from two decades of running our own customer support for our open source work and SaaS apps. After all that time being the customer of other helpdesks, we finally started on the one we actually wanted to use. Our take on AI here is to aim it at the support agent, not the customer. The human owns the conversation. The model makes the reply a little cleaner and a little faster. There There is in private beta, and you can apply for early access at there-there.app. We're building There There with Laravel and Inertia. One package we've come to rely on is Laravel Wayfinder. It generates typed TypeScript functions for every route and controller in your Laravel app, so the frontend talks to the backend without a single hardcoded URL. This post is about why that matters. Using Wayfinder A React codebase quickly fills up with URL strings. Every fetch, every form action, every link points to a route…