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After years of wanting to publish a course, I finally got around to recording the Laravel API Course I wish I had when I was learning. There are 24 high quality videos, along with written tutorials, all for free with no sign up needed. Enjoy the content!

In this episode of the Quick Win Wednesday series, we're talking about pushing things to the background in Laravel. Instead of using Jobs and a Queue, we can now defer things. Available for us since Laravel 11.23.

Run Composer packages, effortlessly. No need to install tools into your app or as global dependencies.

Learn how to use the Pipeline class in Laravel to break complex workflows into smaller, isolated, focused processes. We'll then look at how to test our Laravel pipelines.

Custom collections in Laravel allow you to add model-specific methods, making it easier to handle groups of models in a more expressive way. This is especially useful for managing complex data like e-commerce orders, where you can implement methods for filtering, calculating totals, or applying bulk actions, keeping your controllers clean and focused.

Laravel's accessor caching with shouldCache() boosts performance by preventing repetitive computations for expensive accessors. Additionally, you can work with complex data like addresses using value objects, and Laravel will auto-sync changes back to the model. This improves code efficiency and maintainability, especially for structured data.

Laravel's AsStringable casting helps make string handling in your models smoother and more powerful, letting you use methods like chaining to clean up your code. This makes tasks like formatting titles or generating slugs much easier while improving code readability.

contributed by Tomás López , this validation rule rejects all the registration and email update attempts from any disposable email available. The approach is simaple.

Optimize Laravel factories to create dependent relationships without creating extra database records.

A detailed look at how Laravel's defer() helper works.

Quickly build a docker-compose file for your Laravel/PHP, django/Python, and express/Node.js project using presets or custom settings.

Short URL v8.1.2 fixes a bug where an exception was being thrown if the `short_urls.id` field was being returned as a string from the database.

Multi-tenancy in web applications

Laravel Exchange Rates v7.6.0 adds support for the "VES" currency symbol and updates the test suite.

How to customize Filament notifications to show live progression of a task

I use VSCode to write PHP, but there's a handful of small papercuts I've run into that trip me up. One of the things VSCode excels at is how easy it is to extend - so I wrote an extension that solves a handful of these problems for me and brings some powerful code generation and refactoring tools to the table - TemPHPest. Yes PHPStorm has great all-around support and is a wonderful IDE, but with tools like TemPHPest and the upcoming Laravel VSCode extension, VSCode is more viable than ever.