This Week in Laravel: Laravel MCP, Activity Log, and Filament Tips

Hey hey, Useful Laravel links to read/watch for this week of September 25, 2025.

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From my LaravelDaily.com

[PREMIUM] Spatie Activity Log Package: Deeper Dive (26-minute video)
laraveldaily.com

A video showing multiple ways to log the data and also demonstrating three packages to show/filter the logs, including Filament.

From my YouTube Channel

New Laravel MCP: Explained with Examples
youtube.com

A new first-party package to create your own MCP servers.

Spatie Activity Log Example: "Active Way" or Model Events?
youtube.com

I will show you two main ways to log the activity with this well-known Laravel package. This is 8-minute excerpt from the full 26-minute video above.

NEW Sheaf UI: Blade+Livewire Library Inspired by Shacdn
youtube.com

Quick demonstration of a new Sheaf UI.

Livewire Example: T-Shirt Color/Size Picker and Add To Cart
youtube.com

A practical example of Laravel Livewire in action.

Povilas Korop: Cursor, PHPStorm, Livewire, React, Vue, AI & PHP Tooling!
youtube.com

I went to the channel of Nuno Maduro for this 50-minute LIVE conversation, sharing my opinion on AI, Livewire/JS, and other topics.

10+ Filament Tips from NEW Laravel.io Admin Panel
youtube.com

In this video, I review the new Filament panel created for the Laravel.io portal.

From Laravel Community

MuhammadSadeeq/laravel-activitylog-ui
github.com

A beautiful, modern UI for Spatie's Activity Log with advanced filtering, analytics, and real-time features.

FilaForms - Native Filament form builder I built: r/laravel
reddit.com

After years of rebuilding contact forms, newsletter signups, and application forms for every single Laravel project, I finally snapped and built a proper solution.

Vemto 2 now is Open-Source under MIT license : r/laravel
reddit.com

I'm delighted to announce that Vemto is now a fully open-source project, published under the MIT license.

Nuno Maduro: My own super strict laravel starter kit : r/laravel
reddit.com

Max level on PHPStan, Rector, and Pint, 100% (code & type) coverage on Pest, strict models, immutable dates & much more.

Rotating Your Laravel APP_KEY Without Breaking Everything
ghostable.dev

Learn how to rotate your Laravel APP_KEY safely. Covers manual rotation, key rings with old keys, side effects, and a recommended annual rotation calendar.

Real-time Search with Laravel & Alpine.js: The Simple Approach : r/laravel
reddit.com

Learn how to build a fast, searchable selection modal using Laravel and Alpine.js. This tutorial shows the simple approach that performs well for small to medium datasets.

Schedule As JSON, Session Cache & UseResource in Laravel 12.29
youtube.com

What's new in Laravel is back! We share new features of the Laravel framework every week.

saravanasai/stream-pulse
github.com

StreamPulse is a Laravel package for event streaming with support for multiple drivers. It provides a simple, unified API for publishing and consuming events across different streaming platforms.

Introducing Laravel MCP: Build with the Universal AI Standard
laravel.com

Official Blog article. The Laravel MCP library enables you to build Model Context Protocols with ease, so your apps can meet users where they are and where they’ll be: AI chats.

Introducing Laravel MCP
youtube.com

A quick video by Nuno Maduro.

SQL performance improvements: finding the right queries to fix (part 1)
ohdear.app

This post covers tips and tricks for performance tweaking your SQL queries by first identifying which queries need work.

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