Tag: laravel

A practical tour of the Laravel AI SDK. Provider-agnostic agents, tools, structured output, and pgvector semantic search, all in idiomatic PHP.

MySQL invisible indexes let you test whether an index is safe to drop without a destructive change. Here is how PHP and Laravel developers can use them.

Laravel 13.17 promotes route metadata to a first-class attribute with dot-notation reads and group cascading that survives route:cache. Here is how to use it.

How Laravel 13.10 makes queue workers cheaper to run with --stop-when-empty-for, the WorkerIdle event, and SQS overflow storage for oversized job payloads.

A practical guide to Pest 4 browser testing in Laravel: setup, the sign-in flow, smoke assertions, subdomain testing with withHost, and visual regression.

A hands-on guide to feature flags with Laravel Pennant covering scopes, rich values, gradual rollouts with Lottery, testing, and cleanup in production.

Laravel 13 lets you declare Eloquent config like fillable, hidden, and table with native PHP attributes. Here is how the new syntax works in practice.

NativePHP Mobile v3 (Air) is free, MIT-licensed, and built on a modular plugin system. Here is how the plugin architecture works and how to build one.

Laravel's Interruptible interface lets queued jobs catch SIGTERM during deploys, so long-running work can stop loops, release locks, and save state cleanly.

Laravel Wayfinder's next beta generates typed TypeScript from your PHP for routes, models, enums, Inertia props, and broadcasts. Here is how it works.

Laravel 13.16 ships a php artisan dev command that runs your server, queue, logs, and Vite together. Here is how to configure it in your app code.

Alpine's Sort plugin gives you Kanban-style drag-and-drop in a few attributes. Here is how to wire it to a Laravel backend and persist the order.

Laravel Boost feeds Claude Code and Cursor version-aware guidelines, on-demand skills, and 17,000+ docs so they write idiomatic Laravel instead of generic PHP.

Filament v4 is now at 4.11 with faster table rendering, a TipTap editor, nested resources, and dead-simple MFA. Here is what PHP developers should know.

Pest 4 brings Playwright-powered browser testing to PHP with the visit() helper, smoke tests, visual regression, and parallel sharding. Here is how it works.

Laravel 13 ships first-party JSON:API resources. Learn how JsonApiResource handles attributes, relationships, sparse fieldsets, and includes.

Livewire 4 ships single-file components, islands, lazy/defer bundling, wire:sort, optimistic UI, and seven security hardening fixes. Here's the full breakdown.

PHPverse 2026 is a free online PHP conference on June 9 with Jeffrey Way, Fabien Potencier, Larry Garfield, and more. Here's the full breakdown.

Laravel Reverb is the first-party WebSocket server built for Laravel. Learn how to set it up, broadcast events, and scale to production.

Tinkerwell 5 ships an MCP server that gives Claude and Cursor direct PHP execution in your project context. Here's how to wire it up and use it well.

Practical Claude Code tips for PHP developers: CLAUDE.md setup, custom agents for Laravel/Symfony, skill libraries, and MCP-powered workflows.

PHP 8.5 adds clone with syntax to update readonly properties while cloning. Learn how to ditch boilerplate wither methods and write cleaner immutable objects.

PHP 8.5's pipe operator (|>) enables clean left-to-right function chaining. Learn practical examples, Laravel integration with Spatie's Piper, and what comes next.

NeoVim 0.11 and 0.12 dramatically simplified PHP LSP setup. Learn how to configure phpactor, Treesitter, Blade support, and Laravel Pint with minimal config.

Laravel 13's first-party AI SDK brings provider-agnostic text, image, audio, and embedding generation to PHP developers with a clean, familiar API.

NativePHP Air goes free and open source with a modular plugin system. Here's what changed, how plugins work, and why this matters for PHP developers.

Laravel Pennant makes feature flags a first-class citizen in your app. Learn how to use it for gradual rollouts, A/B tests, and premium tiers.

MySQL window functions let the database do ranking, running totals, and row comparisons that most PHP devs still handle in application code.

Learn how to expose your Laravel application to AI agents using the official laravel/mcp package — tools, resources, and prompts in minutes.

Laravel Herd now ships with a built-in MCP server that connects AI clients like Claude to your local PHP environment with 218 tools.

Laravel Nightwatch delivers production-grade observability for Laravel apps with zero-config setup, deep telemetry, and real-time alerting.

Laravel 13.6 adds native debounceable queued jobs. Dispatch the same job dozens of times, only the last one runs. Here's how to use it.

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

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

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 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.

Tinkerwell 5 ships a built-in MCP server that lets Claude, Cursor, and others execute PHP inside your real project context.

Laravel 12.8 introduces automatic relationship eager loading that silently eliminates N+1 query problems — no more forgetting `with()` on every query.

Set up a powerful PHP development environment in NeoVim 0.11+ using native LSP, Intelephense, Phpactor, Mason, and Treesitter — no more plugin sprawl.

Beyond the pipe operator and URI extension, PHP 8.5 ships quality-of-life features that clean up your daily code immediately — here's what to know.

PHP 8.5's built-in URI extension replaces the broken parse_url() with RFC 3986 and WHATWG-compliant classes for immutable, safe URL handling.

MySQL 9's native VECTOR data type lets PHP developers build semantic search and AI similarity features without spinning up a separate vector database.

Laravel Volt lets you write Livewire components as single-file PHP closures — less boilerplate, faster iteration, and cleaner folder structures.

PHP 8.4 property hooks let you intercept property reads and writes directly — no more boilerplate getters, setters, or fragile magic methods.

Pest PHP 3 brings mutation testing, architecture assertions, and type coverage to PHP. Here are the advanced patterns worth adding to your workflow.

Laravel Reverb gives PHP developers a self-hosted WebSocket server that plugs directly into Laravel's broadcasting system — no Pusher account required.

NativePHP Mobile lets PHP developers build native iOS and Android apps using Laravel. Here's a practical guide to its APIs, setup, and native device features.

Recursive CTEs in MySQL let you query trees, org charts, and nested categories in a single query. Here's how to use them effectively with PHP.

Laravel Prompts and Termwind bring polished terminal UIs to PHP developers. Learn to build interactive CLI tools your team will actually enjoy using.

Alpine.js is Livewire's client-side companion. Master these practical patterns to build snappy UIs without reaching for a full JavaScript framework.

Laravel Livewire v4 introduces islands architecture, single-file components, and optimistic UI directives that change how PHP developers build reactive interfaces. Here's a hands-on guide to what's new.

NeoVim with LazyVim gives PHP developers a fast, keyboard-driven IDE with LSP support, testing integration, and Blade syntax highlighting. Here's how to set it up from scratch.

NativePHP 3.1 changes the game with a single-boot architecture that dramatically improves performance. There's never been a better time to build desktop and mobile apps with Laravel.

Claude Code isn't just for JavaScript developers. Here are real workflow patterns for PHP developers — from plan mode to test generation to MCP integrations.