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Help make Filament faster!
Calling all Filament users – want to help make Filament faster? As of today, the team has launched some big performance upgrades across all of the first-party Filament packages into beta and they need your help…
Read original →Turn PHP Attributes Into Docs With Signal
Signal is a PHP library that reads attributes on your classes and methods and turns them into Markdown and JSON documentation through a single command. The post Turn PHP Attributes Into Docs With Signal appeared first…
Read original →USAIGE: Track Token Usage and Costs for Laravel AI SDK Requests
USAIGE is a Laravel package by Ludovic Guenet that records every AI request as a run with token counts, USD costs, provider details, and status — plus a built-in dashboard for browsing the data. The post…
Read original →Ship AI with Laravel: Failover, Queues, and Middleware for AI Agents
Your AI platform works in development, but what happens when the provider goes down at 2am or traffic spikes? In this episode we add provider failover, queued background processing, and middleware for logging, rate limiting, and…
Read original →Route Metadata Support in Laravel 13.17
Laravel 13.17.0 adds first-class route metadata support, Postgres transaction pooler integration, a dev:list command, and a Should Not Retry exception handler for queue jobs. The post Route Metadata Support in Laravel 13.17 appeared first on Laravel…
Read original →Yammi Audit Log: Track Who Really Made a Change Across Jobs and Queues
A Laravel audit package that records model changes along with the actor, the origin, and a correlation ID, so a change made inside a queued job still points back to the user who started it. The…
Read original →Monitor and Control Schedules, Queues, and Errors in Laravel with Watchtower
A Laravel package by Devifyo that combines scheduled tasks, queues, jobs, and exceptions into one production dashboard — with bulk retries, on-demand task runs, and error resolution built in. The post Monitor and Control Schedules, Queues,…
Read original →Showcase Your PhpStorm Expertise on LinkedIn
JetBrains has partnered with LinkedIn Connected Apps to let developers display a usage-based proficiency badge for PhpStorm and other JetBrains IDEs directly on their profile. The post Showcase Your PhpStorm Expertise on LinkedIn appeared first on…
Read original →Privacy Filter: Detect PII in Text from Laravel
A Laravel wrapper by DirectoryTree around the privacy-filter.cpp binary that detects private entities like names and emails in text, with confidence scores, byte offsets, and a test fake. The post Privacy Filter: Detect PII in Text…
Read original →NationForge: A Self-Hosted Admin Panel for Civic Organizations
NationForge is an open-core Laravel 12 application that gives political movements, civic groups, and community organizations a self-hosted home for contacts, events, donations, and campaigns. The post NationForge: A Self-Hosted Admin Panel for Civic Organizations appeared…
Read original →Monitor Laravel Queues, Commands, and Schedulers on Any Driver with Vigilance
A self-hosted dashboard that records the lifecycle of jobs, artisan commands, and scheduled tasks across every queue driver, with manual dispatch and production-minded sampling controls. The post Monitor Laravel Queues, Commands, and Schedulers on Any Driver…
Read original →Watch the Teaser for 'The Story of PHP' Documentary
CultRepo has released a teaser for The Story of PHP, a JetBrains-sponsored documentary featuring Taylor Otwell, Fabien Potencier, Nikita Popov, and more. The post Watch the Teaser for 'The Story of PHP' Documentary appeared first on…
Read original →Ship AI with Laravel: Give Your AI Agent Live Web Search
The agent can answer from our knowledge base, but not about things that change by the minute like shipping delays. In this episode we add the WebSearch tool so the agent can pull live information from…
Read original →Lattice: Describe Inertia UIs in PHP
Lattice is a server-driven UI framework for Laravel that lets you define pages, forms, and tables in PHP and renders them as typed React components over Inertia. The post Lattice: Describe Inertia UIs in PHP appeared…
Read original →How We Cached Laravel News at the Edge with Fast Laravel
Jason McCreary joined the Laravel Creator Series to walk through how we used his Fast Laravel practices and Cloudflare to cache Laravel News, a high-traffic site whose content changes all day. The post How We Cached…
Read original →The artisan dev Command in Laravel 13.16.0
Laravel 13.16.0 adds an artisan dev command for running development processes, a whenFilledEnum request method, withCookies on all responses, and an array maintenance mode driver for parallel testing. The post The artisan dev Command in Laravel…
Read original →Filament Storage Monitor: Track Disk Usage From Your Filament Dashboard
Filament Storage Monitor is a plugin that adds a dashboard widget for monitoring server disk usage across multiple partitions, with custom labels, health-based coloring, and per-disk authorization. The post Filament Storage Monitor: Track Disk Usage From…
Read original →Subscriptionify: Feature-Based Subscription Management for Laravel
Subscriptionify is a gateway-agnostic Laravel package for modeling plans, features, usage quotas, and optional overage billing without tying your application to a specific payment provider. The post Subscriptionify: Feature-Based Subscription Management for Laravel appeared first on…
Read original →LaraOwl: Self-Hosted Monitoring for Laravel Applications
LaraOwl is an open-source, self-hosted observability platform for Laravel that tracks requests, exceptions, queries, and jobs, with a client package that ships telemetry to a server you run yourself. The post LaraOwl: Self-Hosted Monitoring for Laravel…
Read original →Toolkit: Reusable AI Tools for the Laravel AI SDK
Toolkit is a community catalog of small, independently installable tools for the Laravel AI SDK, covering math, read-only database queries, and web search, research providers, and more. The post Toolkit: Reusable AI Tools for the Laravel…
Read original →Laracon US 2026 Reveals Its Full Speaker Lineup
Laracon US 2026 has announced its complete speaker lineup for July 28-29 in Boston, headlined by Taylor Otwell, Aaron Francis, Nuno Maduro, and Kent C. Dodds. The post Laracon US 2026 Reveals Its Full Speaker Lineup…
Read original →The State of PHP 2026 Survey Is Now Open
JetBrains and The PHP Foundation have launched the first State of PHP survey, gathering data on how PHP developers work, what tools they use, and where the language should go next. The post The State of…
Read original →Version-Controlled Documentation Inside Your Laravel App with Laradocs
Laradocs turns markdown files committed alongside your code into a served documentation site at /docs, with folder-based navigation, front-matter metadata, and content reuse via variables and macros. The post Version-Controlled Documentation Inside Your Laravel App with…
Read original →Typed Translation Accessors in Laravel 13.15.0
Laravel 13.15.0 adds typed translation accessors, JSON Schema deserialization, a dedicated Cloud queue driver, and security fixes for date validation and route unserialization. The post Typed Translation Accessors in Laravel 13.15.0 appeared first on Laravel News.…
Read original →Refresh Your Laravel Database Without Dropping Every Table
Custom Fresh adds a `fresh:custom` Artisan command that rebuilds your Laravel database while leaving the tables you name untouched. The post Refresh Your Laravel Database Without Dropping Every Table appeared first on Laravel News. Join the…
Read original →JSON Schema Deserialization in Laravel 13.14
Laravel 13.14 adds JsonSchema::fromArray() for turning JSON Schema arrays back into Type objects, queue inheritance fixes, job inspection improvements, and several HTTP client and mail fixes. The post JSON Schema Deserialization in Laravel 13.14 appeared first…
Read original →Generate Short, URL-Safe IDs From Numbers With Sqids
Sqids is a PHP library that encodes one or more integers into short, URL-safe strings and decodes them back, with options for minimum length, a custom alphabet, and a profanity blocklist. The post Generate Short, URL-Safe…
Read original →Scheduler List: A Web Dashboard for Laravel's Scheduled Tasks
Scheduler List adds a Pulse-style web interface to Laravel that lists every scheduled task, lets you search and filter them, and can run a task on demand while streaming its output. The post Scheduler List: A…
Read original →Community Laravel Extension for Zed
Laravel for Zed is a community LSP extension that adds go-to-definition, hover cards, find references, rename, and Blade tooling to the Zed editor through static analysis of your project. The post Community Laravel Extension for Zed…
Read original →Advanced Eloquent Query Filtering with Filterable
Filterable is a Laravel package that provides multiple engines for advanced, scalable filtering of Eloquent models, including support for nested JSON and relationship filtering. The post Advanced Eloquent Query Filtering with Filterable appeared first on Laravel…
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