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I built an open-source multi-step form wizard for Livewire 3: here's why and how you can use it

A demo application was refactored into a stable Composer package for Laravel 12–13 and Livewire 3–4. The updated technical article focuses on the reusable server-side contract: per-step validation, review-step revalidation, select allow-lists, server-only Laravel rules, and application-owned persistence. Disclosure: I maintain the open-source package through Codegenie.

What if every Filament write went through an aggregate?

Alberto Arena introduces filament-event-sourcing, a plugin that seamlessly integrates Spatie's event sourcing package with Filament's admin panel. The plugin routes all create, edit, and delete actions through domain aggregates whilst preserving Filament's standard forms and workflows, eliminating the previous trade-offs between using event sourcing and maintaining Filament's built-in functionality.

Your Laravel App Deserves Better Docs and They Should Live in Your Codebase

PHPStan rules to measure cognitive complexity of your classes and methods

A PHPStan extension that measures cognitive complexity in your PHP code, helping you identify difficult-to-understand functions and class dependency trees. It provides configurable rules to keep your code maintainable by flagging overly complex classes and methods.

Laravel Expressive: Typed Objects for Eloquent.

Jump24 explores Wendell Adriel's new Laravel Expressive package, which converts Eloquent models into typed PHP objects, creating a clean separation between database behaviour and domain logic for more maintainable applications.

Improving Laravel Architecture With Expressive

Wendell Adriel explores how the Expressive package helps decouple Eloquent models from business logic by providing fully typed objects, making Laravel applications more maintainable as they scale. The article demonstrates how to keep Eloquent as the persistence layer whilst giving your application cleaner, safer typed objects to work with.

Typed Objects for Eloquent with Expressive

A new package by Wendell Adriel called Expressive allows you to create Typed Objects from your Eloquent models to use throughout your codebase. These remind me of entities in CakePHP

Laravel PHP Attributes List

A comprehensive curated list of all available PHP attributes in the Laravel framework, covering everything from Eloquent models and queues to controllers and dependency injection. This handy reference helps Laravel developers quickly discover and implement the framework's attribute-based features across different components.

Acorn - Integrate WordPress & Laravel

Acorn brings Laravel's powerful developer experience to WordPress, allowing you to use Blade templates, migrations, routing, and Artisan commands within your WordPress projects. This bridge tool enables Laravel developers to leverage familiar workflows and patterns while building WordPress sites.

Scotty: a beautiful SSH task runner

Freek introduces Scotty, a new SSH task runner that provides beautiful real-time output and pause/resume functionality for deploy scripts. It supports both Laravel Envoy's Blade format and a new plain bash format, making it easier to run and monitor remote tasks from your terminal.

Laravel Matrix Generator

A helpful tool that automatically generates GitHub Actions test matrices for Laravel projects, making it easier to test across multiple PHP and Laravel versions. Built by Chris Morrell to solve a common pain point in maintaining open source Laravel packages.

SlideWire: Build Presentations with Livewire and Blade

Ever fancied using a browser based solution to build your next slidedeck for your next talk or presentation, well Wendell Adriel recently released his latest package SlideWire and in this post Paul Redmond walks us through using it to create a presentation

Lens for Laravel Brings WCAG Auditing to Your Local Dev Workflow

How often do you look at how accessible the application you're currently building, the correct answer is you do it for every app with every feature you build. But if that's not the case there is a new package here to help you out. This package scans your application and reports back any violations mapping the issues back to the specific blade template that's caused them. In this post Yannick walks us through how to use the app with your Laravel application.

Laravel Query Builder v7: a must-have package for building APIs in Laravel

Freek announces the release of spatie/laravel-query-builder v7, a powerful package that simplifies building flexible API endpoints by handling filtering, sorting, includes, and field selection through URL parameters. The new version brings a cleaner API with variadic parameters, aggregate includes, and requires PHP 8.3+ and Laravel 12+.

Stop Using PowerPoint for Dev Talks — Build Slides with Laravel & Blade Instead

Eric demos the new package WireSlide by Wendell Adriel. This package allows you to create your presentations in your browser with Blade and Livewire. if you've been looking for an alternative to powerpoint this could be the package for you.

laravel-numberable

A fluent Laravel package that provides an expressive API for numeric operations, offering a Stringable-like interface for numbers with support for arithmetic, formatting, currency conversion, and localization. Features immutable operations, type checking, comparisons, and various formatting styles including currency, percentages, ordinals, and file sizes.