Edition №73

Sharing a Laravel, Inertia & Reverb App with ngrok

Learn how to tunnel a complete Laravel application with Inertia, Vite, and Reverb using ngrok through a clever middleware-based approach. This tutorial shows you how to set up three tunnels and configure everything with just one command to easily share your local development with others.

Remote Laravel Development with Tailscale, Herd & Mac Studio - The Complete Guide

Have you ever thought, you know what I'd love to be able to just connect to my machine at home when im on the move and code on my laptop on the move without worrying about having to resync all the changes. Well in this post Swapnil shows us how to go about doing this using herd and tailscale

Chat with Your Documents: A Practical Guide to RAG Using the New Laravel AI SDK

Learn how to build a powerful document chat system using RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) with the new Laravel AI SDK, Postgres, and Livewire 4. This comprehensive guide covers everything from vector embeddings to creating a real-time streaming chat interface that can answer questions about your documents.

Build an MCP server with Laravel (and use it to publish this post)

A comprehensive tutorial showing Laravel developers how to build Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers using Laravel's official MCP package, enabling AI assistants like Claude to interact directly with your Laravel applications. The author demonstrates building a complete blog management MCP server and actually uses it to write and publish the tutorial itself.

Do Eloquent subqueries work across database connections?

In this tip Joel talks us through how changing your query logic and using a different where Clause allows you to use eloquent subqueries across database connections. It's not something I've had to do before but it's an interesting tip for sure.

I'm Moving From PHPStorm to Zed — Here's How to Set It Up for Laravel

Looking for a new code editor, something thats lightweight and has built in AI then maybe zed is the editor for you! In this x post Chris mellor talks through setting up Zed as a Laravel developer

Talking with Duncan McClean

A podcast episode featuring Duncan McClean, a software developer at Statamic, discussing his work and insights in the Statamic CMS ecosystem. Host Michael LaRoy explores Duncan's development journey and contributions to the Laravel-adjacent Statamic community.

Laravel AI SDK: I Built a D&D Terminal Game with AI as Dungeon Master

Christoph uses the new Laravel AI SDK to build a D&D style dungeon escape game in the terminal. If you're a fan of D&D and have been thinking about building your own game with the help of AI then there might be somethings you can learn from this tutorial

Generate Secure Passphrases in PHP and Laravel (Password Generator Tutorial)

NativePHP: Build Mobile Apps with PHP & Laravel

This week on Nunos channel he walks through building a NativePHP application, showing how simple it is to use and build an application, with special guest Shane Rosenthal. By the way Jump looks so good as a way to quickly add a development app to your phone.