TALL Tales

Exploring the TALL stack and building purposeful applications.

A collection of posts on Laravel, Livewire, Tailwind and Alpine.

Laravel Context vs Session: What's the Difference?

If you’ve started exploring Laravel 11, you might’ve come across Context and wondered how it compares to the familiar Session. While both deal with data sharing, they serve very different purposes—Context lives for a single request, while Session persists across many. In this post, we’ll break down what each does, where they shine, and how to choose the right one for your use case.

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