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A comprehensive walkthrough on how to get started with Pie PHP extension installer on macOS, including how to manually load extensions for environments like Laravel Herd.

My thoughts on why Agentic Engineering is a better path than Vibe Coding, and the workflow I use to turn AI agents into a structured engineering process.

Aion is an agentic-ai-ready, modular Laravel 13 starter kit that is customizable to your application's requirements. It provides a modular and clutter-free foundation for both stateful and stateless applications, optimized for quickly starting your next project with full code ownership.

A practical take on structuring AI features in Laravel. The author explains why Atlas focuses on organization, clear boundaries, and scalable agent architecture—solving issues like scattered prompts and tightly coupled logic that often appear as AI features grow.

Call `Http::automock()` in a test to record real HTTP responses on the first run and replay them on every run after that. No manual `Http::fake()` fixtures needed. Think of it as snapshot testing, but for your API inputs rather than outputs.

An opinionated package that provides beautiful toast notifications for Laravel + Inertia.js applications. Fluent PHP API, multi-toast support, redirect-safe, with Vue 3 and React adapters. Toast notifications can can be triggered from both your backend (PHP) and frontend (JavaScript). Use Toast::success('Saved!') in your controllers or useToast().success('Copied!') in your components. Same beautiful toasts either way.

A static, free, and open-source Laravel playground that runs entirely in the browser! Comes with a sqlite db, artisan commands, two-way file syncing, github imports, and more.

This post explores what Delegated Types are, highlights their benefits, compares them to alternatives like Single-Table Inheritance (STI), and examines practical use cases they enable.

I surveyed 200 Laravel developers on the package ecosystem and habits. 96% want to use existing packages, but 70% struggle with poor docs and abandoned tools. Here's what the community wants, and why finding reliable Laravel packages is harder than it should be.

In this article, we'll look at how to send Telegram messages from a Laravel application using the "laravel-notification-channels/telegram" package. We'll also look at the different types of Telegram messages that can be sent.

We released version v1.5.0 of Parental, our package that adds support for Single Table Inheritance (STI) in Laravel. This new version allows types to become other types and use numeric type columns instead of strings. It also adds new helper methods for eager-loading.

In this article, we'll discuss how to use the "once" helper in Laravel to memoise data. We'll also look at how the "once" helper works with Laravel Octane applications and alternative approaches you can use.

In this video, we'll take a quick look at how to use JetBrain's AI assistant, Junie, to build a new Laravel feature in PhpStorm.

Evolving from dd() to Ray for a smoother workflow. Explore how Ray can boost your debugging game without stopping your code!

Ever feel like you're guessing when debugging? Stop guessing and start knowing with the right approach. Understand the request lifecycle to pinpoint issues easily. No more scattering `dd()` calls, just smart debugging.

Livewire 4 introduces powerful new features that make building Laravel applications even better.

Why I made my portfolio feel like a terminal, and how it works