Well another week has been and gone, there was a funny bright yellow thing in the sky that I've not seen for a while. Laravel Manchester had its second event and by all accounts it was another cracker. Plenty of great articles this week a number of interesting ones related to Laravel and AI. So lets get into it Edition 76 of Artisan weekly
A deep technical dive into Blaze, the new Laravel package that dramatically optimizes Blade component rendering by shifting work from runtime to compile time. The article walks through building toy versions of Blaze to explain its optimization strategies including function compilation, memoization, and compile-time folding.
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+.
A crucial security guide explaining why GET requests should never be used for actions or state-changing operations in Laravel applications. The article covers the security differences between GET and POST requests and highlights the many ways GET requests can be exploited by malicious third parties.
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Yannick L.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.
If you know anything about the team at Jump24, we're big fans of Inertia often singing its praises to clients and promoting it in meet-ups where possible. With Inertia V3 currently in Beta, Leah and Pascal talk through some of the new features coming in the next release
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Pete BishopPete Bishop shares his new GitHub Action that automates Laravel Cloud deployments directly from CI/CD workflows with just three simple parameters. A practical solution born from real-world deployment needs that makes the already smooth Laravel Cloud deployment process even more automated.
Learn how Laravel 11's built-in once() helper provides a cleaner way to memoize function results within a single request compared to static variables. This approach automatically handles cache clearing in Laravel Octane and test environments, preventing stale data issues.
With the release of Laravel 13 this week, Povilas talks us through the things you need to know about this release. So if you've not upgraded yet I suggest you do as it's good practice to keep your applications packages up to date.
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Eric BarnesEric 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.
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LaravelHave you thought to yourself lately how good are these models? well Laravel has done some of the hard work for us and benchmarked them as well as how well they work with Boost to give you an idea of which model is best to use with the framework.
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Paul RedmondEver 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
A thoughtful exploration of how Laravel developers can embrace AI tools while maintaining the artisan philosophy of crafting quality applications. Christoph shares practical insights on choosing the right AI shortcuts that enhance productivity without losing the human touch that makes your work valuable.