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This Week in Laravel: Next.js, Filament Tips, and More

May 01, 2026
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Hey hey,

This week I released another new course on Laravel Daily, the topic is Next.js!

Some people say no one would watch courses in 2026, but I deliberately make courses SHORTER (max 1 hour), and in this case, the goal is for Laravel devs to diversify tech-skills, and Next.js is a perfect candidate for that.

Also, if you're not following my Filament Daily channel, I announced this week is 40% OFF Filament Examples membership and my FilaCheck Pro package, with coupon code FILAMCP - until May 3rd.

Now, let's get to this week in Laravel!

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From my LaravelDaily.com

[New Course] Next.js Basics for Laravel Developers
laraveldaily.com

Next.js framework is one of the most used tools for web-projects. So if, as a Laravel dev, you want to expand your tech-stack, this 1-hour video course is for you.


From my YouTube Channel

Next.js Fundamentals for Laravel Developers (Free 3 Lessons)
youtube.com

The first 3 lessons form the course above, published on YouTube.


New Package: Laravel Fluent Validation - Performance Demo (Before/After)
youtube.com

A new package to optimize validation syntax and array operations.


One "Lifehack" That Will Boost Your Dev Career
youtube.com

In this video, let's talk not about Laravel or code. I'm bringing Saturday "career" videos to the channel!


NEW Filament v5.6: FOUR New Features in Action
youtube.com

Filament team and contributors release a lot of minor versions, let's see what's cooking in v5.


Filament Advanced Choice Plugin: 8 Components Demo
youtube.com

Great news: Dennis made his Filament plugin FREE, so time to show it in action, with CheckboxList, RadioTable, and other components.


Filament: Custom User Profile Page with Github-like Heatmap
youtube.com

A new example inspired by a real startup from Product Hunt.


Filament Plugin: Single-Record Resource
youtube.com

A quick demo of a plugin that allows you to have a menu item linked to specific resource by your user_id, without full Filament Resource.


From Laravel Community

I just released my first open source project - Spectacular - a functional specification tool built in Laravel : r/laravel
reddit.com

Like most side projects, this was born out of frustration. As a developer, I hated getting vague requirements scattered over Basecamp, Jira, Slack...


Scramble 0.13.21 – Laravel API documentation generator update
reddit.com

JSON:API support, toResource and toResourceCollection support, Laravel Query Builder improvements


I built scout-postgres
reddit.com

I just released scout-postgres, an open-source Laravel package I built. It is a Postgres-native Laravel Scout engine that uses PostgreSQL.


Shipped a color picker for Flux
x.com

First component built entirely using AI And all it took was two weeks of prompting and scrapping and tweaking and yelling and thrashing and hallucinating and gesticulating to get it right.


PHP & Laravel Might Be the Best Stack in 2026
youtube.com

Video by Nuno Maduro.


Deploy a Laravel MCP App to Production with Laravel Cloud
laravel.com

Article on the official Laravel blog. We cover tool implementation, error handling, authentication, testing, and production monitoring.


Integration testing our Laravel package with a real server and queue
flareapp.io

When unit tests aren't enough. We started testing the Laravel Flare package against a real application in order to verify that our code works using orchestra workbench. Here's how we did it.


Wonderful world of worktrees (and Laravel)
joeymckenzie.tech

I figured as a last bout of employment in this industry, I would write a bit how I use worktrees tailored to Laravel development.


Josh Cirre on X: "Here's two ways to upload large files to an application that's hosted on Laravel Cloud."
x.com

But really, the second one is the better option 99% of the time.


Freek Van der Herten on X: "Here's another new package: Laravel Mobile Pass."
x.com

It can generate Apple Wallet and Google Wallet passes from your Laravel app. Boarding passes, tickets, coupons, store cards, loyalty cards, all through a fluent builder.


Punyapal Shah on X: "Laravel devs, my prediction was wrong with addition of Laravel Pao to Boost."
x.com

It's now actually come by default with Laravel itself when you create new projects after v13.4.0


That's it for this week, see you in the next newsletter issue!

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