This Week in Laravel: NativePHP Mobile and AI Guidelines from Spatie

Hey hey, Useful Laravel links to read/watch for this week of July 24, 2025.

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[NEW COURSE] NativePHP: Build Mobile App with Laravel
To create a mobile app, you don't necessarily need to learn React Native or Flutter. In this 2-hour text-based course, we will show you how to create a conference event mobile app with Laravel.

From my YouTube Channel

AI Guidelines from Spatie: in Claude.md and Cursor Rules
Recently Spatie published their PHP/Laravel guidelines to be easily used with AI. Let's try them in action!

NativePHP: Build Mobile App with Laravel (Example of Event App)
The overview of how to create a mobile app with Laravel + Livewire which would consume the remote API from another Laravel app.

Laravel Multi-Step Form: Save Data in DB, in Session, or Both?
If you have a form with ~100 fields over 6 steps, how/when do you store the intermediate data? Let me show you my version of the answer.

Complex Price in Laravel DB: JSON or Relations? Or Both?
If your e-commerce pricing has complex logic, how to store the final purchase price, to keep all historical records, but also not overwhelm the DB?

Alpine.js: Live Calculations in Laravel Blade (Three Examples)
If you want dynamic calculations in Blade, no need for complex React/Vue, necessarily. Here's Alpine.js example.

9 Examples of Filament Charts/Widgets: Dashboard and View Page
This video will be a "crash course" on how Widgets are structured in Filament (v4 Beta): I will show charts, stats, tables.

From Laravel Community

A year with PHP property hooks
stitcher.io

Property hooks were added in PHP a year ago.

Releasing Laravel Chat : r/laravel
reddit.com

Hey community, I'm happy to release my Laravel Chat package I've been working on. I've had it running on a production site for a while and am happy to release a beta version of it now!

Why I'm not using Livewire any more - magic vs bloat. : r/laravel
reddit.com

Livewire is impressive in terms of ease of use. But once the complexity of the component increases, especially with large datasets or model relationships, I’ve noticed serious trade-offs in how Livewire handles state.

Tinkerwell v5 is now released - Laravel News
laravel-news.com

Tinkerwell v5 adds an MCP server, inline AI code completion, AI chat, a refreshed UI and much more!

Livewire Security Vulnerability - Laravel News
laravel-news.com

In Livewire v3 (≤ 3.6.3), a vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to achieve remote command execution in specific scenarios.

How to Test Laravel Socialite
nabilhassen.com

Learn how to implement & test Laravel Socialite logins, handle edge cases like duplicate emails, and mock providers to ensure full authentication coverage.

3 Things Laravel Livewire Is NOT (But Everyone Thinks It Is)
youtube.com

A video from Josh Cirre.

How to monitor your Laravel app for critical vulnerabilities
freek.dev

Many production apps are probably running vulnerable versions right now, with their developers completely unaware. This is where automated security monitoring becomes invaluable - using Laravel Health to check for vulnerabilities, and optionally services like Oh Dear to send you notifications when issues are detected.

Why Your Laravel APP_KEY is a Secret
youtube.com

Something happened recently where a bunch of Laravel applictions were discovered to have public production APP_KEY's stored in their git repository. How could this happen? What should you do about it? How do you prevent it from happening? What even is an APP_KEY for Laravel and is it a secret? Let's talk about it.

PHP 8.5: Full Review – What’s New & What Changed!
youtube.com

A video from Nuno Maduro.

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