This Week in Laravel: AI in Laravel, DB Optimization, and Official Bootcamp

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

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From my LaravelDaily.com

6 Laravel UI Kits and Component Libraries: 2025 Version
laraveldaily.com

Laravel community has built a lot of Blade UI Kits and Component Libraries. In this article, we will review the most popular ones: how they work, and what is the visual result.

From my YouTube Channel

Laravel Performance: Careful with withCount()
youtube.com

An example of query optimization using withCount vs join, also adding cache on top.

Live-Vibe-Coding with Claude Code: Real Trading Project from Upwork
youtube.com

I want to show the REAL PROCESS how to use AI as assistant: offloading certain parts of tasks, reviewing code, dealing with failures, etc. I will create a Laravel + Filament project in 1 hour.

AI in Laravel: Laravel Bengaluru September 2025 meetup
youtube.com

My 30-minute video talk at Laravel Bengaluru meetup about using AI in Laravel - the lessons I learned so far.

Laravel DB Structure Audit: 4 Quality Checks That Matter
youtube.com

A bit longer "checklist" video with my thoughts of how to evaluate the quality of DB structure in its early days.

Laravel Schema Dump: Practical Demo from Laravel.io
youtube.com

I noticed that squashing migrations feature was used in the Laravel.io project, so decided to demonstrate.

16 Filament Tips from Teacher Payout/Class Schedule Project
youtube.com

A new Filament project with a lot of functions to showcase.

From Laravel Community

Official Laravel Bootcamp: PHP Fundamentals [FULL COURSE]
youtube.com

Learn the essentials of modern PHP in this beginner-friendly course by Christoph Rumpel.

Official Laravel Bootcamp: Learn Laravel from Scratch [FULL COURSE]
youtube.com

Welcome to the official Getting Started with Laravel course by Josh Cirre

How much AI assistance do you use when working on Laravel projects? : r/laravel
reddit.com

This is something I've been wondering about for a while in the greater Laravel community.

The NativePHP Mobile Kitchen Sink app is now open source (MIT) : r/laravel
reddit.com

Here it is: the Kitchen Sink Mobile repo is now unlocked.

Laravel Notifications: dynamic channels, priority, and delayed sending - Josip Crnković
crnkovic.me

Learn how to make Laravel notifications super powerful: multi-channel, delayed sending, and customizable.

Building a Flexible Reporting System with Laravel Collections and Scopes - Laravel News
laravel-news.com

You've built custom collections and query scopes, but your reporting logic is still scattered across controllers, API endpoints, and commands.

WendellAdriel/laravel-estilo
github.com

Manage your CSS in PHP and easily use it on Blade.

1M Deploys on Laravel Cloud: Billing, Admin & Integrations
blog.laravel.com

Laravel Cloud hit 1M deployments since EA. Here’s how we built billing, admin tools, and integrations to support every deployment.

Laravel in 2025: Omarchy, Filament, React, Vue, TypeScript & More
youtube.com

New video by Nuno Maduro.

Composer: Check PHP package versions
nabilhassen.com

Learn how to check composer package versions in PHP using CLI, lock files, installed.json, or the InstalledVersions class.

Supercharge Your Laravel App with Enums
youtube.com

In this video we'll dive deep into enhancing your PHP applications with enums.

Inside the Laravel Service Container
wendelladriel.com

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

Flare Launched their MCP Server
flareapp.io

You can now use our MCP server to connect your AI agent to Flare. This way your AI has all context it needs to diagnose and fix production and performance problems.

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