This Week in Laravel: Filament 4, Laravel Boost, and Junie Review

Hey hey, Useful Laravel links to read/watch for this week of August 14, 2025.

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From my LaravelDaily.com

[New Course] PhpStorm Junie AI for Laravel Projects
In this 40-minute video course, I will summarize my experience and walk you through the main things you need to know, if you want to use Junie in PhpStorm, for Laravel projects.

[New Course] Filament 4 From Scratch
This is a 2-hour text-based course with a lot of screenshots (shooting video version is in progress) for those who want to start with Filament version 4, or want to refresh their memories on some topics.

From my YouTube Channel

Laravel Boost: First Test with Real AI Prompt
Laravel team have released Boost package which they call AI starter kit. I've tried it.

Filament v4 is LIVE: Main Things You Need To Know
An overview video of what's new in v4 and how to upgrade your v3 projects.

Laravel New No-Auth Starter Kits (and API When?)
There's a new feature in Laravel Installer: you can choose React/Vue/Livewire starter kit without login/register functionality.

PhpStorm Junie AI Re-Review: Compared to Cursor / Claude Code
I've tested Junie in PhpStorm for a few weeks. Let me share my (updated) opinion.

Enterprise Laravel: 3 Tips from Wendell Adriel (E-Book Review)
I've noticed an e-book released by a fellow creator Wendell, so decided to review it and point out a few topics for discussion about Laravel in enterprise.

Form Request: Transform Data Before Validation (Real Use-Case)
What if you need to change the data before the validation, and then use that transformed variable in Controller? Let me show you the prepareForValidation() method.

From Laravel Community

Generate Postman Collections from Laravel Routes - Laravel News
laravel-news.com

The yasin_tgh/laravel-postman Composer package generates Postman collections from your Laravel routes with intelligent organization and rich documentation capabilities.

Laravel's UsePolicy Attribute: Explicit Authorization Control - Laravel News
laravel-news.com

Take control of Laravel authorization with the UsePolicy attribute. This feature allows explicit policy assignment to models, overriding naming conventions while improving code clarity and maintainability for complex authorization scenarios.

Implementing Domain-Driven Architecture in Laravel: Setup, Advantages, and Practical Use Cases
medium.com

Domain-Driven Design (DDD) is a powerful approach to software development that aligns your application’s architecture with the complexities…

PHP-SaaS, The everything-included starter kit for your next idea
youtube.com

PHP-SaaS is a PHP starter kit built on top of Laravel starter kits with additional features like: API Tokens, Billing, Projects, Full test coverage, and more.

Understanding Laravel Eloquent's Active Record Pattern
wendelladriel.com

In this article I'll explain what the Active Record pattern is, its pros and cons and we will build a tiny implementation of it in plain PHP for you to understand better the mechanics behind Eloquent.

Exclude Models With except() Method in Laravel 12.22
nabilhassen.com

Laravel 12.22 adds except() method to Eloquent Builder to exclude models or collection of models from queries, simplifying exclusions by model instances.

Laravel Security Guide: How to Fix These 6 Common Mistakes
youtube.com

Your Laravel app might be wide open to hackers — and you wouldn’t even know it. In this video, I’m exposing 6 common Laravel security fails.

convergephp/converge: Advanced documentation management framework for Laravel artisans
github.com

Converge, is a modular Laravel documentation system designed to dynamically generate, organize, and present documentation, API references, and related content based on a structured hierarchy of versions, clusters, groups, and files.

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