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A deep dive into how Laravel transforms raw route segments into models, scoped children, enums, and custom bound values before your controller runs.

AI coding agents love to run tests in parallel processes. That's great until multiple processes try to use the same local test database at once. A small file lock can serialize access and stop those runs from stepping on each other.

This article frames AI as a tool to support, not replace, developers, emphasizing the importance of staying in control of how and when it’s used. It encourages a thoughtful approach where developers leverage AI for efficiency while maintaining ownership of decisions and outcomes.

Learn what the ADR (Action/Domain/Responder) pattern is and how to apply it in Laravel with a simple, practical example.

How to implement calendar-month metered billing on Paddle using zero-value subscriptions, one-time charges, and a homemade invoice grace period.

Explore how Blaze works under the hood—by building two progressively capable toy versions of Blaze from scratch.

Validate nested array inputs in Laravel form requests without the N+1. Prefetch lookup data in prepareForValidation and check items in memory.

In the latest episode of "wait, the web can do that now?!?" we look at how we can use the Screen Capture API to share select portions of our screens on platforms like Google Meet, which don't natively support that type of share.

A comprehensive walkthrough on how to get started with Pie PHP extension installer on macOS, including how to manually load extensions for environments like Laravel Herd.

My thoughts on why Agentic Engineering is a better path than Vibe Coding, and the workflow I use to turn AI agents into a structured engineering process.

Aion is an agentic-ai-ready, modular Laravel 13 starter kit that is customizable to your application's requirements. It provides a modular and clutter-free foundation for both stateful and stateless applications, optimized for quickly starting your next project with full code ownership.

A practical take on structuring AI features in Laravel. The author explains why Atlas focuses on organization, clear boundaries, and scalable agent architecture—solving issues like scattered prompts and tightly coupled logic that often appear as AI features grow.

Call `Http::automock()` in a test to record real HTTP responses on the first run and replay them on every run after that. No manual `Http::fake()` fixtures needed. Think of it as snapshot testing, but for your API inputs rather than outputs.

An opinionated package that provides beautiful toast notifications for Laravel + Inertia.js applications. Fluent PHP API, multi-toast support, redirect-safe, with Vue 3 and React adapters. Toast notifications can can be triggered from both your backend (PHP) and frontend (JavaScript). Use Toast::success('Saved!') in your controllers or useToast().success('Copied!') in your components. Same beautiful toasts either way.

A static, free, and open-source Laravel playground that runs entirely in the browser! Comes with a sqlite db, artisan commands, two-way file syncing, github imports, and more.

This post explores what Delegated Types are, highlights their benefits, compares them to alternatives like Single-Table Inheritance (STI), and examines practical use cases they enable.

I surveyed 200 Laravel developers on the package ecosystem and habits. 96% want to use existing packages, but 70% struggle with poor docs and abandoned tools. Here's what the community wants, and why finding reliable Laravel packages is harder than it should be.