This Week in Laravel: New Laravel Packages, Drivers, and MCP Example

Hey hey, Useful Laravel links to read/watch for this week of October 23, 2025.

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From my YouTube Channel

New Laravel Spy Package: Track HTTP Client Requests
youtube.com

A new package to log your requests to 3rd-party APIs.

Laravel Repository Pattern: "Good" vs "Bad" Examples
youtube.com

I found a good usage of Repository pattern in Laravel package Metrics, so wanted to show you.

Filament: 10+ Features of Table Filters
youtube.com

Let me show you capabilities of Filament table filters in a visual way.

New Laravel Package Metrics: Easily Track Events by Dates
youtube.com

A new package by Steve Bauman, I will demonstrate it in action, with a demo project.

Multi-Language Laravel Vue Inertia: Starter Kit Example
youtube.com

A demo of how to add localization to Vue Starter Kit of Laravel 12.

From Laravel Community

Taylor Otwell on X: "Today's Laravel release ships with cache failover support as well as a deferred queue."
x.com

Taylor's tweet about two new features in Laravel.

Centralizing code quality commands in PHP projects: composer scripts vs Makefile
dev.to

In this article, we’ll see how to centralize all code quality commands in one place, ensuring consistency and simplicity.

The Laravel failover queue driver: stop losing jobs
benjamincrozat.com

Learn how to set up the Laravel failover queue driver so you don’t lose jobs when Redis, SQS, or another queue goes down. I walk you through a copy-paste setup, simple tests, and small gotchas.

Using MCP to steal insights from YouTube videos
youtube.com

How I'm using Laravel & the Laravel MCP package with Claude to more efficiently borrow insights from YouTube videos.

laravel prism or Neuron ai? · neuron-core/neuron-ai · Discussion #50
github.com

for those who used both, how would you compare or choose between them?

Rector Rules for Laravel - Laravel News
laravel-news.com

Rector for Laravel is a Rector extension developed by the Laravel community with some Laravel-specific rules that you can use on your Laravel applications.

Laravel Nuxt UI Starter Kit - Laravel News
laravel-news.com

The Laravel Nuxt UI Starter Kit is production-ready with Vue 3, Inertia.js v2, Nuxt UI Components, and Tailwind CSS v4.

Blocking invalid requests to your Laravel application - Laravel News
laravel-news.com

Stop wasting server resources on junk traffic. Learn how to block invalid requests to your Laravel app using Cloudflare rules, route whitelisting, and smart security practices.

HTTP Batch, Stringable Methods & After Rollback Events in Laravel 12.32 & 12.33
youtube.com

What's new in Laravel is back! We share new features of the Laravel framework every week (v12.32 & 12.33)

A Production-Ready Laravel Architecture with Traefik and FrankenPHP
danielpetrica.com

A practical guide to deploying a high-performance Laravel stack using Octane, FrankenPHP, and a fully automated Docker Compose workflow.

Convenient Content Security Policies with Spatie Laravel CSP 3 Presets - Shawn Hooper
shawnhooper.ca

Version 3.x of Spatie's Laravel CSP package allows you to add presets for common web services to your Content Security Policy.

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