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A deep dive into the Laravel request lifecycle, from public/index.php and application bootstrapping to middleware, routing, controllers, responses, and termination.

Our MCP server gives LLMs fast, structured access to Laravel plugin health, compatibility, and vendor reputation, so they recommend maintained, safe choices.

A deep dive into idempotency, from the theory behind safe retries to a practical Laravel implementation using the Laravel Idempotency package.

Learn how to reuse your Laravel MCP tools in the Laravel AI SDK using a simple proxy approach, helping you avoid code duplication and making it easier to build AI agents integrated into your Laravel applications.

Running SQLite on a Laravel Forge site with zero-downtime deployments? Every deploy quietly throws your entire production database away. Here is why it happens and how to fix it by moving the database into the shared storage directory.

A Claude Code skill that helps you design and generate event-sourced domain code for Laravel using spatie/laravel-event-sourcing

Laravel Boost only reads a single core.blade.php per package, so extra sibling files get silently dropped. Here is the minimal pattern for splitting your guidelines into organized partials using a Blade view namespace.

A deep dive into Role-Based Access Control, from the theory behind roles and permissions to a practical, team-aware Laravel implementation without external packages.

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.