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Laravel monitoring that doesn't bill you by your traffic
Self-hosted Laravel monitoring powered by laravel/nightwatch telemetry. Keep months of history in your own PostgreSQL with flat pricing from $5/month. The post Laravel monitoring that doesn't bill you by your traffic appeared first on Laravel News.…
Read original →Mock PHP Classes in Tests With the Double Library
Double is a PHP mocking library from Jason McCreary with one API for mocks, spies, and partials, plus failure messages that show the actual call log. The post Mock PHP Classes in Tests With the Double…
Read original →Laravel artisan dev: Run Server, Queue, Logs, and Vite
Laravel 13.16 added php artisan dev to run your server, queue worker, logs, and Vite together, with the process list configured in PHP instead of composer.json. The post Laravel artisan dev: Run Server, Queue, Logs, and…
Read original →Laravel Discount: Coupon Codes, Usage Limits, and Stacking
Laravel Discount adds percentage and fixed coupons, expiry windows, per-user usage limits, and stacking rules to Laravel apps, with Laravel Cart support. The post Laravel Discount: Coupon Codes, Usage Limits, and Stacking appeared first on Laravel…
Read original →Laravel Truss: Live Interactive Database ER Diagrams
Laravel Truss renders your database schema as a live, zoomable ER diagram inside your application. The post Laravel Truss: Live Interactive Database ER Diagrams appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel…
Read original →Saga Lara Flow: Durable Workflows and Compensating Transactions on Laravel Queues
Saga Lara Flow is a Laravel package by Andriy Karpishyn that runs long-lived business processes as replayable PHP methods, with automatic rollback when a step fails. The post Saga Lara Flow: Durable Workflows and Compensating Transactions…
Read original →Major performance improvements & security patches for Filament v4.12 and v5.7!
A few weeks ago, the Filament team asked for your help testing a beta release for v4 and v5 that was intended to have a massive improvement in performance for complex Filament applications. Well, you all…
Read original →Extract an Image's Dominant Color in Laravel
Laravel 13.24 can extract an image's dominant color as a hex string. Use it for placeholder backgrounds, letterbox fills, and readable overlay text. The post Extract an Image's Dominant Color in Laravel appeared first on Laravel…
Read original →Reject Unexpected Array Keys with Laravel Validation
Laravel 13.24 adds an array_keys validation rule that rejects arrays containing keys you did not allow, with a message naming the offending keys. The post Reject Unexpected Array Keys with Laravel Validation appeared first on Laravel…
Read original →Validate and Convert HEIC Images in Laravel
Laravel 13.24 accepts HEIC and AVIF uploads in the image API and validation rules. Here's how to take iPhone photos and serve them as WebP or AVIF. The post Validate and Convert HEIC Images in Laravel…
Read original →Laravel Boost Project Rules: Teach Agents Your Conventions
Laravel Boost project rules store your app's conventions in .ai/rules, scoped by file globs, so an agent only reads the instructions that apply. The post Laravel Boost Project Rules: Teach Agents Your Conventions appeared first on…
Read original →Image Dominant Color and HEIC Support in Laravel 13.24
Laravel 13.24 adds dominant color detection and HEIC support to the image API, a modelKeys() query builder method, and an array_keys validation rule. The post Image Dominant Color and HEIC Support in Laravel 13.24 appeared first…
Read original →Official Laravel Zed Extension: LSP for PHP & Blade
The official Laravel extension for Zed wires up Laravel LSP, giving you completions, hovers, diagnostics, and code actions in PHP and Blade files. The post Official Laravel Zed Extension: LSP for PHP & Blade appeared first…
Read original →Laravel Head: Manage Meta Tags, Open Graph, and JSON-LD
Announced in Taylor Otwell's Laracon US 2026 keynote, Laravel Head is a first-party package that manages your document head with a fluent API covering titles, Open Graph, robots directives, JSON-LD schemas, and performance hints across Blade,…
Read original →Laravel Doctor: Diagnose Your App With One Artisan Command
Run php artisan doctor to check your Laravel app's environment, config, database, queue, and storage, then let it auto-fix what it safely can. The post Laravel Doctor: Diagnose Your App With One Artisan Command appeared first…
Read original →PhpStorm 2026.2 Released
JetBrains has released PhpStorm 2026.2 with a new Laravel tool window, a FileReference attribute for PHP, PHP 8.5 pipe operator support, and an agent skills manager. The post PhpStorm 2026.2 Released appeared first on Laravel News.…
Read original →Laravel AI SDK Adds Human-in-the-Loop Tool Approval
Announced at Laracon US 2026, the Laravel AI SDK's new human-in-the-loop API pauses an agent before it runs a sensitive tool so a person can approve, reject, or edit the tool call first. The post Laravel…
Read original →CPX: The Composer Package Executor for PHP
cpx 2.0 is a full rewrite of the Composer package executor. It runs a command from any Composer package without adding it to your project, prefers the binaries your project already pins, and returns JSON when…
Read original →Pest 5 Released With Test Impact Analysis, Agent Verification, and Evals
Nuno Maduro announced Pest 5 at Laracon US 2026. The PHP testing framework adds test impact analysis, an agent plugin, evals, PHPStan, and Rector support. The post Pest 5 Released With Test Impact Analysis, Agent Verification,…
Read original →Blade Formatting in Laravel Pint
Pint 1.30.0 adds a --blade flag that formats .blade.php files through Prettier, alongside fixes for --diff, --quiet, and a new in key for pint.json. The post Blade Formatting in Laravel Pint appeared first on Laravel News.…
Read original →What's new in PHP 8.6
Read the full post on https://stitcher.io/blog/new-in-php-86
Read original →Inertia DevTools Is Now on the Chrome Web Store
Inertia DevTools, the official Chrome DevTools panel for inspecting Inertia.js visits, props, and route metadata, is now listed on the Chrome Web Store instead of requiring an unpacked install from GitHub. The post Inertia DevTools Is…
Read original →Queue-SQL: Run Mass Deletes and Updates Across Parallel Queue Jobs
Queue-SQL is a Laravel package that turns mass updates, deletes, and inserts into batches of parallel queued jobs. The post Queue-SQL: Run Mass Deletes and Updates Across Parallel Queue Jobs appeared first on Laravel News. Join…
Read original →Laravel Announces the Founders Summit, a One-Day Event for Founders
Laravel is gauging interest in the Founders Summit, a one-day gathering in November 2026 for founders and leaders running businesses built on Laravel. The post Laravel Announces the Founders Summit, a One-Day Event for Founders appeared…
Read original →A Practical Guide to Laravel's First-Party Image Processing
Learn how to use Laravel's new Illuminate\Image API introduced in Laravel 13.20 to resize, transform, convert, and store images with practical examples. The post A Practical Guide to Laravel's First-Party Image Processing appeared first on Laravel…
Read original →RouteKey Model Attribute in Laravel 13.21
Laravel 13.21 adds a #[RouteKey] attribute for Eloquent route model binding, a base64 validation rule, a RequestAttribute contextual attribute, and new output formats for the Image component. The post RouteKey Model Attribute in Laravel 13.21 appeared…
Read original →Laravel Time Machine: A Request Lifecycle Profiler
Laravel Time Machine profiles every stage of the Laravel request lifecycle, from bootstrap to termination, with a timeline dashboard and SQL query capture. The post Laravel Time Machine: A Request Lifecycle Profiler appeared first on Laravel…
Read original →Laravel SMS Catcher: A Local Dashboard for SMS Notifications
Laravel SMS Catcher captures outgoing SMS notifications during local development and displays them in a phone-inspired inbox dashboard. The post Laravel SMS Catcher: A Local Dashboard for SMS Notifications appeared first on Laravel News. Join the…
Read original →Scaffold Packages with the `laravel package` Command in Laravel Installer v5.31.0
Laravel Installer v5.31.0 introduces a command to scaffold Laravel packages, along with environment variable propagation for node-less setups and automated PHP version matching for GitHub Actions. The post Scaffold Packages with the `laravel package` Command in…
Read original →Vocalizer: Local Text-to-Speech for PHP
Vocalizer is a native PHP extension for local speech synthesis, embedding sherpa-onnx and audio.cpp to run eight TTS model families — including Chatterbox voice cloning — behind one API. The post Vocalizer: Local Text-to-Speech for PHP…
Read original →Build a Laravel Scout Search Endpoint With the HTTP QUERY Method
Learn how to define a Laravel route that responds to the new HTTP QUERY method and use Laravel Scout's database driver to build a search API endpoint. The post Build a Laravel Scout Search Endpoint With…
Read original →Enforce Per-Action Waiting Periods in Laravel with Cooldown
A Laravel package that enforces per-action, per-owner cooldown periods with a fluent API, an Eloquent trait, route middleware, atomic locking, and cache or database storage. The post Enforce Per-Action Waiting Periods in Laravel with Cooldown appeared…
Read original →The Analytics Stack for Laravel: Traffic, Revenue and Attribution in One Place
SimpleStats is a GDPR-compliant, server-side analytics platform built for Laravel that ties every visitor, signup and payment back to the campaign that earned it, so you can see which channels actually make money. The post The…
Read original →Laravel Legacy Bridge: Carry Authenticated Sessions from a Legacy App into Laravel
Laravel Legacy Bridge reads a legacy PHP session cookie, decodes the payload, and logs the matching user into Laravel, so users mid-migration don't hit a second login prompt. The post Laravel Legacy Bridge: Carry Authenticated Sessions…
Read original →First-Party Image Processing in Laravel 13.20
Laravel 13.20.0 introduces an Image facade for resizing, converting, and storing images, along with a WithoutMiddleware controller attribute, a separate Redis session prefix, and quiet bulk increment methods on Eloquent. The post First-Party Image Processing in…
Read original →Laravel Quota: Usage Budgets for Calendar Periods
A Laravel package that tracks and enforces cumulative usage limits across calendar periods, with a fluent API, an Eloquent trait, route middleware, and cache or database storage. The post Laravel Quota: Usage Budgets for Calendar Periods…
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