This Week in Laravel: Filament 4 Videos and Pest 4 Browser Testing

Hey hey, Useful Laravel links to read/watch for this week of August 28, 2025.

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From my YouTube Channel

I've Tried Pest 4 Browser Testing: My Examples
In the new Pest v4, the most significant feature is browser testing. Let me show it to you, in action.

Laravel Zap: New Package for Schedules of Doctors, Employees, etc
I will demonstrate a package to help you save availability rules and vacations for company employees.

NEW in Laravel 12.25: Error Page - Copy Markdown (and Paste into AI Agent)
A new small "quality of life improvement" in Laravel minor release.

Laravel Breeze with CUSTOM Design? Easier Than You Think.
When building a public-facing website with user area, how do you stay "on brand" with the design of Laravel starter kits? Here's my experiment with Breeze.

From Laravel Community

Transform your URLs with AI using our new Laravel package | freek.dev
freek.dev

I'm excited to share that we've released a new package called spatie/laravel-url-ai-transformer. This one can get the content of a webpage and transform it into something else using AI. In this blog post, I'd like to share why I've created it and how you can use it.

Creating type-safe configs in Laravel | cosmastech
cosmastech.com

A pattern that I like to use for type-safe configs.

Taylor Otwell: What 14 Years of Laravel Taught Me About Maintainability | Maintainable Software Podcast
maintainable.fm

Taylor Otwell looks back on 14 years of building and maintaining Laravel. From four stars on GitHub to a full-fledged ecosystem, he shares what it takes to design software that lasts—and why simple often wins.

metalogico/laravel-formello: A Laravel package for generating Bootstrap 5 forms based on models. Laravel 9+
github.com

A Laravel package for generating Bootstrap 5 forms based on models.

Password Strength Estimator Validation in Laravel - Laravel News
laravel-news.com

The Laravel Zxcvbn package is a validation rule that estimates password strength using a PHP port of Dropbox's JS package. It considers using user inputs as well to determine a score for password guessability.

Using SQLite in production with Laravel - Laravel News
laravel-news.com

Learn how to use SQLite effectively in Laravel apps. This guide covers WAL mode, busy timeouts, Eloquent casts, and transaction pitfalls. Plus workarounds for avoiding SQLITE_BUSY errors until PHP 8.5 improves SQLite support.

We've added Wayfinder to our Vue and React starter kits. 💅
x.com

Beautiful, type-safe bridge between your front end and back end.

ludoguenet/laravel-artifact: Lightweight Laravel package that handles basic media management with no fuss.
github.com

Lightweight Laravel package that handles basic media management with no fuss.

Should You Learn Laravel Before PHP?
laracasts.com

Should you learn PHP before Laravel? Discover the pros and cons to decide the best path for mastering Laravel development.

halimzidoune/query-macro
github.com

A Laravel package that extends the Query Builder with database-agnostic SELECT macros. Replace complex DB::raw() statements with intuitive methods like selectConcat(), selectDateFormat(), and selectCase() that work seamlessly across MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server.

Boosting Laravel Boost
blog.oussama-mater.tech

In the era of AI, LLMs are undeniably part of our workflow. Let's make them suck less with Laravel Boost.

Building Laravel Cloud: The Web Application
blog.laravel.com

How we built Laravel Cloud’s web app: from the RILT stack and action pattern to testing, local fakes, and following Laravel conventions to stay fast and flexible.

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