This Week in Laravel: Nightwatch, Cursor Course, Migration Mistakes, and More

Hey hey, Useful Laravel links to read/watch for this week of June 19, 2025.

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Cursor for Laravel Projects: Crash Course New 43-minute-long video course for those who haven't tried Cursor or want to know the practical tips, like which model to choose, or how to make Cursor use the latest Laravel 12 docs.

From my YouTube Channel

Top 5 Mistakes in Laravel DB Migrations
Over the years, I've noticed the inexperienced devs making these mistakes that have big consequences, especially working on a team in a project that will grow with time.

Laravel Vending Machines API Project: Step-by-Step (incl Filament and Pest)
A longer 30-minute video showcasing a real project. We've created a project based on a real Upwork job description. In this video, I will explain its parts, step by step.

spatie/laravel-permission: WHEN to Use the Package for Roles?
I get asked this question quite often: in which cases it's better to use a roles/permissions package instead of the default Gates/Policies in Laravel?

Laravel Permissions for User on Top of Roles
Typically in web-projects you assign the role to a user, and that role contains the permissions. But what if you want to add extra INDIVIDUAL permissions for a specific person?

Filament v4 Beta: First Look - 4 New Features
Let me demonstrate just a few features of the new Filament 4 Beta.

Filament v4 Beta: 5 Changes in Forms/Tables Structure
If you try Filament v4, there are a few places that may surprise you because the code structure is a bit different.

From Laravel Community

Laravel Nightwatch has been released : r/laravel
reddit.com

Post on Reddit with first impressions from the users.

Laravel Nightwatch in 3 Minutes
youtube.com

Laravel Nightwatch offers a fully managed observability platform with comprehensive error tracking, performance monitoring, and team collaboration. Learn all the things you'll be able to learn throughout the Nightwatch dashboard.

Laravel Nightwatch vs. Telescope
youtube.com

Laravel Nightwatch offers a fully managed observability platform with comprehensive error tracking, performance monitoring, and team collaboration. Laravel Telescope provides local debugging with deep insights into requests, exceptions, and more, ideal for development environments. Which one fits your Laravel workflow best?

Laravel Nightwatch vs. Pulse
youtube.com

Nightwatch offers full observability and team collaboration, while Pulse provides a lightweight, self-hosted dashboard to track app performance. Which one fits your Laravel project?

Is There an Official Laravel Certification? - The Laravel Blog
blog.laravel.com

Wondering about Laravel certification? Here’s what you need to know, why it might not matter, and what actually works to get good and get hired.

What VS Code plugins do you install now that Laravel official plugin is released? : r/laravel
reddit.com

So, what other extensions do you install on a fresh vs code setup (besides the official Laravel plugin)?

Manage Taxonomies, Categories, and Tags in Laravel - Laravel News
laravel-news.com

The Laravel Taxonomy package manages categories, tags, and hierarchical structures in Laravel applications. Taxonomy is ideal for category management, organizing content, product attributes, and more.

Parse Localized Numbers with Laravel's Number Class - Laravel News
laravel-news.com

Laravel's Number class provides locale-aware parsing methods that handle international number formats using PHP's Intl extension. These utilities automatically convert locale-specific number strings to standardized numeric values, simplifying financial data processing and CSV imports in multilingual applications.

Larallow is a Permissions Package With Support for Scopes - Laravel News
laravel-news.com

Larallow for Laravel is a package for handling roles and permissions with advanced features such as scoped roles, polymorphic relations, translation support, and more.

Laravel 12.19 Adds a useEloquentBuilder Attribute, a FailOnException Queue Middleware, and More - Laravel News
laravel-news.com

The Laravel team released v12.19.0 with a UseEloquentBuilder PHP attribute, an AsFluent model cast, FailOnException job middleware, assert redirect back with errors, and more.

Typehinting Laravel validation rules using PHPStan's type aliases
ohdear.app

Here's the story of how we use static analysis, and how we use type aliases to make type hints more readable.

Let's Build Digital Resume Page With Laravel
youtube.com

Let's build a digital resume web page using Laravel. This is a live build of one of the projects from CodeArch.

Why I migrated from RILT (React with Ineria & Laravel) to API only | by Ben Shaw | Jun, 2025 | Medium
medium.com

InertiaJS is truly amazing. So is Livewire. Their creators bridged the gap for Laravel developers like me that want to utilise the power of Laravel’s backend functionality.

How a Solo Dev Went From $0 to $57M RaisedㅣLaravel, Taylor Otwell
youtube.com

Podcast interview with Taylor about his journey from solo developer to building Laravel, the world's most beloved PHP framework.

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