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This Week in Laravel: AI Coding, Code Styling, and Winning Freelance Clients

December 19, 2025
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Hey hey, Useful Laravel links to read/watch for this week of December 18, 2025.

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From my YouTube Channel

Laravel DB Transaction with Try-Catch for Deadlocks
youtube.com

An interesting solution I found in the code I've been reviewing.


Laravel "Global" Eloquent Observers: Interesting Code Example
youtube.com

I want to show you the code that I've been reviewing, with pretty cool custom solution for Observers.


How to Win Freelance Clients: One AI-Based "Trick"
youtube.com

My personal favorite how to pitch for client work. It worked for me 5-10 years ago, tried it again, still works.


This Code Example Gets You Rejected From Job Opportunities
youtube.com

My personal opinion on something VERY important that SOLO devs tend to skip.


Coding Exam Project with AI: Part 1 - ChatGPT Plan, Laravel Boost, and Guidelines
youtube.com

I'm starting a series on the AI Coding channel - if it gets enough traction, will continue to the final product.


Will Developers Become "Vibe-Code-Fixers"?
youtube.com

I noticed a few jobs on Upwork that may look "alarming". Let's discuss.


From Laravel Community

Refine is Live Blade Editor for Laravel - Laravel News
laravel-news.com

Refine is a live Blade editor for Laravel that enables instant, in-browser editing of Blade templates.


Measure Lines of Code and PHP Features Used - Laravel News
laravel-news.com

Lines is a CLI tool by Tomas Votruba that measures lines of code and features used in PHP projects. It has zero dependencies, runs anywhere, and provides PHP-specific metrics.


I built a Laravel installer because shared hosting setup is still painfu : r/laravel
reddit.com

Laravel is great, but the first 30 minutes still suck — especially on shared hosting.


What's your go-to approach for structuring large Laravel projects? : r/laravel
reddit.com

I’ve been working on some fairly large projects lately and I keep running into the same challenge: “How do I structure my Laravel apps so that they stay maintainable as they grow?”


Punyapal Shah on X: "This is a great set of AI guidelines for PHP/Laravel projects"
x.com

This is a great set of AI guidelines for PHP/Laravel projects; you might want to take a look! Thanks to @jessarcher


Jason McCreary on X: "My new video course - Fast Laravel"
x.com

30 videos chronicling my quest to optimize Laravel app response times using free services from Cloudflare


My thoughts on the “Action Pattern”
youtube.com

Pretty casual video by Mateus Guimaraes. Just rambling.


Simon Vrachliotis - React, the Laravel way - Laracon AU 2025
youtube.com

Simon shares how Laravel and Inertia transformed his ability to ship full stack React projects after years of JavaScript ecosystem fatigue.He walks through t...


Building a Karaoke App with Laravel Boost and Copilot: One Week Progress - eheidi.dev
eheidi.dev

In this post I share my experience building an app with an impossible deadline, using Laravel Boost and Copilot


Building a Production-Ready Webhook System for Laravel
newlevel.hashnode.dev

A deep dive into security, reliability, and extensibility decisions.


Understanding Laravel queue internals: the job lifecycle
queuewatch.io

Most Laravel developers use queues daily without truly understanding what happens beneath the surface. You dispatch a job, it runs eventually, and life goes on. But when jobs fail silently...


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