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This Week in Laravel: Laravel AI SDK, Free NativePHP, and My New Filament Package

February 07, 2026
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Hey hey, Useful Laravel links to read/watch for this week of February 5, 2026.

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From my LaravelDaily.com Website

Laravel AI SDK: "First Look" at Laracon India 2026

Taylor Otwell has been working on Laravel AI SDK for a few months now, and at Laracon India 2026, he showed the demo.


From my YouTube Channel

5 Livewire v4 Practical Examples
youtube.com

We finished upgrading our Livewire Kit to v4, and I've picked 5 components to show.


My NEW Package FilaCheck: Detect Deprecated/Inefficient Filament Code
youtube.com

I had so many issues with AI agents generating "older" Filament code that I decided to fix it with a package.


Laravel Package Tyro: API Roles/Privileges Example
youtube.com

I saw a package with quite a lot of GitHub stars, and decided to try it out.


From Laravel Community

NativePHP for Mobile is Now Free
nativephp.com

Starting with v3, the entire Laravel community (and beyond) can build native iOS and Android apps without paying a cent.


Christoph Rumpel on X: "What's New in Laravel 12.50"
x.com

AI experiment - short video from Christoph.


Punyapal Shah on X: "Laravel 13 will go attribute-first"
x.com

Native PHP attributes across Models, Jobs, Requests, Commands & Resources.


Povilas Korop on X: "Laravel starter kits became 'safer' with new added defaults"
x.com

  • Enforcing immutable dates with CarbonImmutable
  • Not allowing destructive commands in production
  • Requiring safer passwords by default in production

The Origin of Laravel - a look at v1 Beta 1
laravelnepal.com

Explore the history of the PHP world with a deep dive into the original Laravel v1 codebase. Travel back to 2011 when Laravel was just folders of PHP files.


Laracon US 2026 dates and location announced : r/laravel
reddit.com

Hey r/laravel! We just announced the dates and location for Laracon US 2026, and I wanted to share it here with the community.


Laravel Fuse: A Circuit Breaker Package for Queue Jobs : r/laravel
reddit.com

Hey everyone! Today I open-sourced on Laracon India 2026 stage, a package I've been working on called Laravel Fuse. It solves a problem that's...


Our New OpenClaw VPS: A Dedicated Home for Your AI Assistant on Forge
youtube.com

Laravel Forge now has a dedicated OpenClaw VPS to give your digital assistant a safe home, separate from your personal machine.In this video, I'll show you w...


Victor on X: "How Hackers Turned My Server Into a Crypto Mining Farm (And How We Caught Them)"
x.com

A story about file uploads and Livewire v3 vulnerability.


Taylor Otwell on X: "Laravel was written before PHP had attributes, so we used properties to define configuration on things."
x.com

After attributes were introduced, we've accumulated a few attributes that can be used to configure behavior. However, the mix of attributes and properties makes things feel...


Joe Tannenbaum on X: "We've shipped some big improvements to our Livewire + Blade support in our official VS Code Extension"
x.com

Full Livewire 4 support, including MFC. Better hover support for components, including their props. Vastly improved autocompletion for components in your app.


Once again processing 11 million rows, now in seconds
stitcher.io

Two weeks ago I went on an optimization spree when a PHP script had to process 11 million database-stored events. My initial code processed around 30 events per second. I knew there was still room for improvement, though, and so, the journey began again.


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