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Master AlpineJS state management with $store, $persist, and $dispatch. Practical patterns for PHP, Laravel, and Livewire developers building reactive UIs.

Elizabeth Barron joins as Executive Director, Matt Stauffer lands on the board—here's how the PHP Foundation's bold 2026 moves shape PHP's future.

Livewire 4 ships Islands, native View Transitions, parallel requests, and single-file components — here's what changes and how to migrate.

PHP 8.6 lands two closure optimizations — static inference and stateless caching — delivering real memory and speed gains with zero code changes required.

FrankenPHP is now an official PHP Foundation project. Here's how worker mode delivers 15,000 req/sec and what it means for your Laravel and Symfony apps.

Claude Code subagents let you delegate specialized tasks to purpose-built agents. Here's how PHP developers can use them to work faster and smarter.

The slow query log only shows you part of the picture. Learn to use MySQL Performance Schema to uncover lock waits, I/O lag, and query patterns your logs miss.

Symfony UX 3.0 raises the bar for PHP frontends: PHP 8.4 required, dead weight dropped, and Live Components sharper than ever.

The Laravel Skills directory at skills.laravel.cloud gives your AI coding agent deep Laravel knowledge. Here's how to set it up and write your own.

NativePHP Mobile v1 launched May 2, 2026 as a free, modular platform for building real iOS and Android apps with Laravel.