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Explore Laravel’s Service Container from the ground up: resolution, binding, scopes, contextual dependencies, auto-wiring, and more, and demystify how your app runs.

Read about the new v1.0 release of the Redactable Models for Laravel package. The article covers the new "mass redaction" feature and the Composer dependency changes.

Learn how to enforce strict validation in Laravel. See examples of boolean, distinct, integer, and numeric rules with and without strict mode.

We’ve moved from command lines to GUIs, and now the next shift is here: AI that can actually use your app. This article introduces the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a powerful way to let AI interact directly with your applications—and why it’s more than just another tech acronym.

The rise of hybrid application development combines PHP with Go and Rust to enhance performance. New features like FFI and Rust and Go based extensions improve performance without necessitating a complete rewrite, enabling optimization of critical application components while preserving PHP's productivity and stability.

Time and time again, I found myself manually reverting fresh Laravel installations to v5's Kernel structure. That's why I decided to automate this process and package it up! Do you recognize yourself doing the same too? Then make sure to check out the package!

Build APIs for Humans & AI Agents with the same codebase using Laravel Restify

Read about how to use the Favicon Fetcher package in your Laravel projects to retrieve websites' favicons via the DuckDuckGo API.

Explore the list of Laravel starter kits, both official and community. Compare features and find the right kit to speed up your Laravel projects.

Learn what the State Machine Pattern is and how to apply it in your PHP applications with this in-depth article about it

In the era of AI, LLMs are undeniably part of our workflow. Let's make them suck less with Laravel Boost.

Monthly dose of developer tooling

Utilize deferred events in Laravel to delay event dispatching, including model events, ensuring listeners run only after a specific closure has finished running.

Discover the mechanics behind the Laravel Queue System

Detailed introduction into NixOS through the perspective of deploying Laravel apps

Read this guest post by Revaz Ghambarashvili that introduces us to his Laravel AI package, LarAgent.

Travel Planner agent that fetches weather, converts currency and recommends attractions using LarAgent + Laravel

Filament v4 boosts performance, adds TipTap rich editing, client-side JS helpers, nested resources, MFA, and more, making Filament faster and smarter.

Your Laravel app might be wide open to hackers — and you wouldn’t even know it. In this video, I’m exposing 6 common Laravel security fails that developers make all the time, and exactly how you can fix them before it’s too late.