Hey hey, Useful Laravel links to read/watch for this week of November 20, 2025.
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How I Use AI for Laravel: Cursor, Claude Code, Codex (FREE 1-Hour Course)
youtube.com
I decided to publish my newest premium course for free on YouTube.
Black Friday 2025 on Laravel Daily: 40-50% off membership!
youtube.com
This year I'm launching two new features for Premium members.
Is PHP Job Market THAT Bad?.. (reaction to Reddit post)
youtube.com
I saw this post on Reddit and decided to share my opinion, and to discuss with you guys. For those looking for a PHP/Laravel job at the moment, what do you see in your country/industry?
I've Tried 3 Laravel Packages for SEO
youtube.com
Let me show you a few packages that may help SEO in your Laravel projects.
(YouTube Short) MySQL to Visual Diagram in 30 Seconds with Workbench
youtube.com
A quick demo how to create a visual DB diagram with MySQL Workbench.
From Laravel Community
PHP 8.5 Released
php.net
PHP 8.5 is a major update of the PHP language, with new features including the URI Extension, Pipe Operator, and support for modifying properties while cloning.
Black Friday Deals for Laravel Developers 2025
blackfridaydeals.dev
Dive into the best Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals for Laravel enthusiasts! Save big on packages, courses, and tools designed to elevate your laravel development journey.
Introducing WebSockets for Laravel Cloud, Powered by Laravel Reverb
laravel.com
Launch real-time features in seconds with WebSockets for Laravel Cloud: managed Laravel Reverb clusters for up to 50% less than third-party tools.
Tweets how Devs discover Laravel
raindrop.io
My personal collection of bookmarked stories how developers are happy after trying out Laravel.
serversideup/php v4 is now stable
x.com
😅 Over a year of work 🐘 FrankenPHP & Laravel Octane support 🤖 LLM integration on our docs 🤝 13 new contributors ❤️ All open source
Laravel Middleware Priority | ollieread - PHP and Laravel expert
ollieread.com
In this article we're going to look at middleware priority, which is something that is briefly mentioned in the documentation, but isn't fully documented.
Saloon vs Guzzle vs SDK vs Http Facade for Laravel API Integrations
ashallendesign.co.uk
Read about how to decide whether to use Salon, Guzzle, an SDK, or the Http Facade to build API integrations for your Laravel applications. This article is a snippet from my "Consuming APIs in Laravel" book.
Asset Cleaner Package for Laravel - Laravel News
laravel-news.com
The Asset Cleaner package for Laravel safely detects and removes unused CSS, JS, and other assets from Laravel applications. It works seamlessly with Laravel, Vue, React, Inertia, and Livewire.
Supabase Package for Laravel - Laravel News
laravel-news.com
The saeedvir/supabase package integrates Laravel with Supabase services, including Auth, Database, Storage, and Realtime.
Did you ever want to show the progress (0-100%) of a running job in your app for a better UX? Going further, did you ever want to support cancelling already processing, long-running jobs as well?
Email Utilities for Laravel v1.0 Released! 🎉
ashallendesign.co.uk
Read about my latest package: Email Utilities for Laravel. It's a small package which can be used to check and validate whether an email address is disposable or role-based.
houdaslassi/vantage
github.com
A Laravel package that tracks and monitors your queue jobs. Automatically records job execution history, failures, retries, and provides a simple web interface to view everything.
Improving unit test run time in a Laravel modular monolith
cosmastech.com
I recently started a new job and was given my first exposure to a modular monolith. Modular monoliths of course present some challenges, and the one that kind of struck me by surprise was test suite run time.
DvDty/laracon-recordings
github.com
Laracon recordings are split between multiple channels in YouTube, this list can help you navigate through them.
Building a WhatsApp Bot with the Command Pattern in Laravel
elishaukpongson.medium.com
At the end of this article, you should understand how to build a clean, maintainable WhatsApp bot using the Command pattern
franbarbalopez/mirror
github.com
Mirror is an elegant user impersonation package for Laravel. It allows administrators to seamlessly log in as other users to troubleshoot issues, provide support, or test user experiences.
Martin Joo on X: String Helpers in Laravel
x.com
Laravel has some awesome string helpers. Here are some of the most interesting and lesser-known ones.
Punyapal Shah on X: You can finally prohibit the schema:dump command in production
x.com
After Laravel 12.38, you can finally prohibit the schema:dump command in production.
Ludovic Guénet on X: Nuxt Biscuit
x.com
Meet Nuxt Biscuit — a lightweight module that connects your app to Laravel Sanctum using first-party cookies.
Shane Rosenthal on X: We just finished a native QR + Barcode scanner in PHP
x.com
We just finished a native QR + Barcode scanner in PHP. Real native camera pipeline… triggered directly from Laravel. This ships in NativePHP v2 — November 2025.
Caleb Porzio on X: Wire:Live talks recordings
x.com
All talks for Wire:Live are on YouTube
Working with PHP and Laravel on VSCode
wendelladriel.com
After a lot of years working with PHP and Laravel on PHPStorm, I am trying to use VSCode and this is how I configured it for the task.
🚀 Introducing Laravel ObjectId — The Fastest MongoDB-Style Identifier for Laravel Models
medium.com
Works seamlessly with MySQL, MariaDB, and PostgreSQL — no MongoDB required.
Stop Writing Arrays in Your Tests: Laravel Factories for Data Objects
barrento.dev
Building the Laravel Orrto SDK taught me something: test setup shouldn't be harder than the actual testing. When you are integrating with an API that expects complex, nested payloads, raw arrays turn your tests into unreadable nightmares fast.
Livewire 4 Keynote | Caleb Porzio Wire:Live 2025
youtube.com
Caleb gives us a recap of the new features coming to Livewire 4 and demonstrates how you can put them together to create a polished, interactive application....
Dries Vints on X: Results from the @laravelio move to Laravel Cloud
x.com
Sharing some first results from the @laravelio move to Laravel Cloud and its config! Went with a not too crazy instance size of 2 vCPU 1 GiB RAM. Holds up pretty well.
Wendell Adriel on X: What's your VSCode setup for PHP and Laravel?
x.com
Which plugins are MUST HAVE? Are there any settings that I should update? (read the 50+ replies)
The View Transitions API is a browser feature that lets you animate between pages. It can be a simple cross-fade, and you can even animate specific elements from one page to the next.
Laravel: The Best Web Framework for 2025
kevincoyle.co.uk
Why Laravel's comprehensive integrated featureset and the laravel-boost MCP make it the standout choice for web development in 2025
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