This Week in Laravel: 3rd-party APIs, Large File Uploads, and APP_KEY Security

Hey hey, Useful Laravel links to read/watch for this week of July 17, 2025.

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From my LaravelDaily.com

NEW Course: Laravel HTTP Client and 3rd-Party APIs
In modern web, many operations are performed via external APIs you need to call from Laravel. Some of those APIs don't have dedicated Laravel/PHP packages. That's why you need to know ins-and-outs of Laravel HTTP Client, to flexibly use it for any 3rd-party API.

From my YouTube Channel

Laravel: Upload Large Files with Filepond and Chunks
A quick demonstration of how to upload big files, like videos, without changing the configuration limits in your web-server or php.ini.

Laravel: Top 5 Mistakes with 3rd-Party API Errors in HTTP Client
After creating examples of external APIs in my newest course, I noticed the patterns of mistakes developers often make.

Laravel: Complex Pricing Structure for E-Commerce (Flight Check-in Demo)
Hot to structure the DB and the code for complex multi-step pricing? Here's one of the ways, in my demo project about airline check-in.

Two-Factor Auth in Laravel 12: Tools and Packages
What are the options in the new starter kits or outside of them? Here's a quick rundown.

New fwd.host: Local Google OAuth in Laravel Became Easier
A new service launched by Marcel Pociot that would help to avoid external tools for local callback URLs.

From Laravel Community

Over 600 Laravel Apps Exposed to Remote Code Execution Due to Leaked APP_KEYs on GitHub
thehackernews.com

GitGuardian uncovers 260,000 leaked Laravel APP_KEYs on GitHub, exposing over 600 apps to remote code execution.

Anyone using Laravel Octane with FrankenPHP on production? : r/laravel
reddit.com

So we are evaluating production deployments for our distributed system and at the moment are considering serversideup nginx images or FrankenPHP.

Big news! Larasense is now open source! : r/laravel
reddit.com

Larasense brings together the latest Laravel articles, YouTube videos, and podcasts from credible sources we all know and love. No distractions. Just Laravel.

NativePHP for Mobile v1.1: Smaller, Smarter, and Ready to Scale
laravel-news.com

Version 1.1 of NativePHP drops Monday, July 14, and it isn’t just a collection of fixes. It’s a foundational upgrade designed to make NativePHP apps easier to build, faster to ship, and ready for real production work — all using Laravel.

Set up an AI-powered Laravel Development Environment with Claude Code and MCP Servers
laravel-news.com

The Laravel Claude Code Setup repo is a one-command setup for AI-powered Laravel development with Claude Code and MCP servers. Automatically configure all MCP servers for an AI-powered Laravel development experience with Figma integration.

Introducing spatie/ping and spatie/simple-tcp-client
freek.dev

We just tagged stable release for two new spatie packages: spatie/ping and spatie/simple-tcp-client. In this blogpost, I'd like to share why these were developed and how you can use them.

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