It's Laracon US week and FOMO has really kicked in. It looked like such a great event from dodgeball on day zero and LaraProm to some great talks.
Day 1 of Laracon US, catch all the announcements from all your favourite devs
Nuno talks us through TIA the new testing engine available in Pest 5. With Huge speed improvements to your test suite running speed with your test suite whats holding you back now from writing those tests!
Steven walks us through creating a real-time chat application using one of our favourite tools Laravel Reverb! Covering message persistence, WebSocket broadcasting, presence channels, typing indicators, and production deployment - all without writing custom JavaScript or maintaining separate Node services whats not to love.
In this post Ashley walks us through the clamp function coming to PHP 8.6 in November, if you've not seen the RFC or you dont know anything about clamp at all read on and find out what it is, and how to use it in your applications.
Have you ever wondered what the framework actually does and what happens behind the scenes when you call the find method on your eloquent model? In this post Christos walks us through what goes on!
Recently announced at Laracon US 2026, Laravel have a new package Laravel LSP: a first party support language server. this package teaches your editor about your laravel application this such as config keys, route names and view paths and much much more.
In this latest article from Steve he walks us through implementing a workflow engine to handle order fulfilment. Using state management, webhooks and manual approvals, so if you want to find out more about workflow engines read on to see a practical example in Laravel.
Laravel Facades one of those things that brought about so many debates about why this is a bad practice because of its static method call nature. Well we all know thats not true and in this post Eric walks us through what they are, how they work in the framework and why they're not as bad as newcomers to the framework think.
Laravel's keynote at Laracon US 2026 introduced major updates including scale-to-zero Flex compute on Laravel Cloud, a new Language Server Protocol for editor-agnostic autocomplete, Inertia DevTools for debugging, and human-in-the-loop controls for AI agents. The announcement also covered framework improvements like image manipulation, CPX for running packages without installation, and streamlined package development tools.
A practical guide to using Laravel's database transactions effectively, covering the closure-based helper, automatic deadlock retries, and best practices for keeping transactions tight whilst avoiding common pitfalls like performing slow operations within transaction locks.
An AI agent harness for Laravel that enables AI-powered code assistance directly within your application. Includes built-in agents for coding, fixing bugs, reviewing diffs, explaining code, and generating tests, plus a self-healing system that autonomously fixes failed jobs and scheduled tasks.
A comprehensive comparison of Laravel Scout's search drivers (Meilisearch, Typesense, Algolia, and database) covering real-world costs, features, and operational trade-offs. Provides practical guidance on choosing the right search solution for your Laravel application based on usage patterns and budget.