Hey hey, Useful Laravel links to read/watch for this week of January 29, 2026.
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From my YouTube Channel
Why Laravel Still Matters (A LOT) in AI Coding Age
youtube.com
Things have changed and AI writes a lot of code for us. So should we as Laravel developers switch to something more AI-trendy? Let's discuss.
NEW Laravel Boost v2.0: How Agent Skills Actually Work?
youtube.com
I've tried out the new Laravel Boost v2 and its approach to skills, and I have some recommendations on how/when to trigger them.
My Favorite New Feature of Livewire 4
youtube.com
Another free lesson from my course "From Livewire 3 to Livewire 4".
Laravel AI Chatbot Trained on Your Data: Example Project
youtube.com
A demo project of chatbot that answers questions based on the uploaded documentation. We use Laravel, Livewire, MySQL, and OpenAI Embeddings.
From Laravel Community
Laravel Debugbar v4 release
fruitcake.nl
4.x release of Laravel DebugbarThis week, we released a new version of Laravel Debugbar (4.0), one of the most popular Laravel development tools with over 118.000.000 downloads.
Build Task Tracker App With Laravel | Part 1: Architecture & Auth
youtube.com
A huge 4-hour YouTube tutorial from Gio.
Use factories to make your tests more readable
youtube.com
Your tests might work perfectly, but can someone else read them and understand what...
I built my own server dashboard using a Laravel health package API : r/laravel
reddit.com
Hey all, I’m running a few Laravel servers and wanted a clean, custom server dashboard instead of using multiple tools. I used the API from my...
Speeding Up Laravel News With Cloudflare - Laravel News
laravel-news.com
Jason McCreary breaks down how Cloudflare page caching can dramatically speed up Laravel apps using Laravel News as a real production case study.
Common Laravel Mistakes I See in Production (And How to Avoid Them)
laravel.io
Laravel makes it incredibly easy to build applications fast. But that same ease can lead to patterns that work fine early on and become painful in production. After working on multiple real-world Laravel applications, I’ve seen the same mistakes repeated again and again.
Livewire v4 Islands: The Complete Deep Dive 🏝️
youtube.com
Learn everything about Livewire v4's revolutionary Islands feature! In this comprehensive tutorial, we'll cover basic usage, lazy loading, named islands, inf...
Freek from Spatie: I took the time to thoroughly clean up my .dotfiles
x.com
Now also contains my Claude setup.
Measuring Performance with the "Benchmark" Class in Laravel
ashallendesign.co.uk
Read about the different ways you can use the "Illuminate\Support\Benchmark" class in Laravel to measure the execution time of your code. We'll also discuss things to be aware of when using it.
devrabiul/laravel-toaster-magic
github.com
Laravel Toaster Magic is a lightweight, themeable toast package for Laravel & Livewire with no jQuery, Bootstrap, or Tailwind dependency.
damilarekoiki/phpregex
github.com
A tool that provides you with a more readable and intuitive way of working with regex in PHP
Reduce Duplicate Cache Queries in Laravel with "Cache::memo()"
ashallendesign.co.uk
Learn about how to use the "Cache::memo()" method to memoise cache values and improve performance in your Laravel applications.
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