Laravel + React

Question

I'm starting work on a large property listings website using react and laravel. Which of these two options would you advise and why?

Option 1: Use laravel react presets then have all your react components in a subfolder in your resources folder.

Option 2: Build the reactjs front-end completely outside laravel. Then build APIs with laravel that the react project will consume.

Answer 1

I normally use the first option half the time when I am building Node applications but I will advice you use the second option as it makes for a more maintainable and cleaner project structure