Hey hey, Useful Laravel links to read/watch for this week of January 8, 2026.
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From my YouTube Channel
SaaS Marketing for (Laravel) Developers
youtube.com
A free lesson from my recent course on creating a SaaS with Laravel.
NEW in Laravel v12.45: JsonApiResource for JSON:API Specification
youtube.com
Let me quickly demonstrate a new feature released in the minor Laravel version this week.
New Laravel Starter Kit with FlyonUI CSS (Blade Only)
youtube.com
We released another experimental Blade starter kit using FlyonUI components, without prerequisites of React / Vue / Livewire.
Laravel Quiz/Exam Project with Livewire
youtube.com
I will show you the demo + source code of a new Laravel & Livewire project for quizzes and exams, based on the project from Upwork.
Mason Filament Plugin: CMS Page Builder with Customizable Blocks
youtube.com
The official v1 of Mason package was released, and I realized it's time to make a quick demonstration.
Filament Percentage Table Column: Non-Zero Value, Colors, and Sorting
youtube.com
A quick example how can you calculate the percentage column on-the-fly, also customizing its color and making it sortable with raw SQL.
From Laravel Community
The new version of Laravel Wayfinder
x.com
Tweet by Joe Tannenbaum.
Introducing Flash Data in Inertia
x.com
With Flash Data, you can send one-time values to your frontend that won't reappear when users navigate through browser history.
Laravel Gems: Advanced Patterns & Architecture Beyond Controllers : r/laravel
reddit.com
I’ve been building Laravel applications for 10+ years and still genuinely love the framework, its documentation, and the community.
Laravel Clean Code: Invokable Controllers, Form Requests, Jobs, and More
youtube.com
Video by Nuno Maduro
How We Built Laravel Wrapped
laravel.com
Learn how Laravel's team built Laravel Wrapped in two weeks: aggregating data across products, generating 55K AI summaries, and shipping with Cloud's speed.
AGENTS.md for TALL stack projects
x.com
Tweet by Benjamin Crozat.
Why Your PHP Dates Keep Breaking
youtube.com
Ever spent hours debugging mysterious date bugs in your PHP code? You're probably using DateTime when yo...
The Best Vibecoding Stack for 2026
benbjurstrom.com
Your AI is only as good as the decisions it doesn't have to make. Laravel's opinionated defaults make it the ideal framework for building applications with AI assistance.
Build an AI-Powered Drawing Guessing Game with Laravel, Prism, and HTML Canvas
tighten.com
AI is everywhere. It can create songs, build entire apps, and even drive our cars. But... can it play Pictionary? We're about to find out.
Today, we're building an AI-powered drawing guessing game. In...
ritechoice23/laravel-fluent-ffmpeg
github.com
A fluent, chainable API for working with FFmpeg in Laravel applications. Process videos and audio with an elegant, expressive syntax.
Grazulex/laravel-api-kit
github.com
A modern, API-only Laravel 12 starter kit following 2024-2025 best practices.
TharinduWijayarathna/bladecn
github.com
A component library for Laravel that looks like ShadCN.
akira-io/laravel-qrcode
github.com
A clean, modern, and easy-to-use QR code generator for Laravel.
suleman09522/super-audit
github.com
A Laravel package for automatic database audit logging using MySQL triggers.
How to add a Telegram bot to your Laravel
x.com
Video from Laracasts.
neuron-core/neuron-laravel: Utility Package for using Neuron AI in Laravel applications.
github.com
Utility Package for using Neuron AI in Laravel applications. - neuron-core/neuron-laravel
Formatting PHP Code with PHP CS Fixer
ashallendesign.co.uk
Read about how to use PHP CS Fixer to automate the formatting of your PHP code. We'll also explore how to use PHP CS Fixer in parallel mode and create a GitHub Actions workflow which checks the code style on pull requests.
How I Built an AI Agent for my Portfolio (Yabasha.dev) using Laravel & Next.js
dev.to
I built an autonomous "Editor Agent" using Laravel 12, Next.js 15, and OpenRouter that benchmarks AI models in real-time and automates the boring parts of blogging. Here is the full architectural deep dive.
A surprising inconsistency with request helpers and default values | Mastering Laravel
masteringlaravel.io
And how to avoid it
Self-Mocking Actions in Laravel
deligoz.me
Every test needs three lines per mocked action: create mock, bind to container, set expectations. With five actions, that's fifteen lines of boilerplate before you even start testing. How to solve it?
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