This Week in Laravel: Starter Kits, Alpine, PDFs and Roles/Permissions

Hey hey, Useful Laravel links to read/watch for this week of June 5, 2025.

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From my LaravelDaily.com

Laravel 12 Starter Kits: Definite Guide Which to Choose
If you install Laravel 12, you are immediately prompted to choose the starter kit. What if you don't know much about those options? Also, there are MORE options that are not listed in this wizard. This guide will help you choose.

Laravel Spatie PDF Package: Generate Invoice with Images and CSS
Spatie has a modern package spatie/laravel-pdf, for generating PDF files with some features for flexible design. This tutorial will show how to generate a PDF file using that package.

From my YouTube Channel

Alpine.js Open-Source Example by Spatie: PHP Operators (no Livewire)
Spatie have released a project where Alpine.js is used as a foundational architecture piece, rather than typical use for small dynamic elements.

3 Tools to Draw/Manage Database Schema
In addition to Laravel migrations, you may use tools to visualize DB structure. Video review of 3 such tools, by my teammate Modestas.

Laravel with Roles/Permissions from... WordPress?
A random experiment: what would it look like if we add WP-based roles to Laravel with Spatie Permission package?

6 Laravel Tips from Open-Source Project for Gamers
I've found a Laravel project on GitHub called Azuriom, with quite a lot of things we can learn.

Spatie Sheets with Laravel Data: Content from Markdown Files
If you have a CMS with relatively static content, you may store the texts in Markdown and use these two packages to parse data.

New Idea: Get AI Prompt Based on Laravel Tutorial?
What if you could get an AI prompt after a text/video tutorial, to implement the main changes in your project?

From Laravel Community

Taylor Otwell: The Untold Laravel Origins, Design Patterns, Livewire vs Inertia, AI & More!
youtube.com

Interview chat between Nuno Maduro and Taylor Otwell.

My Laravel Horizon preferences after 5 years of using it
govigilant.io

I've been working with Laravel Horizon for the past five years on Laravel applications that do 1M+ jobs per day. In this article, I’ll share what I’ve learned from working with Laravel Horizon for five years.

Cast Model Properties to a Uri Instance in 12.17 - Laravel News
laravel-news.com

The Laravel team released v12.16.0, with an "AsUri" model cast, contextual service container binding using PHP 8 attributes, and more.

nunomaduro/essentials
github.com

Just better defaults for your Laravel projects.

Laravel Loop MCP server
github.com

Laravel Loop is a powerful Model Context Protocol (MCP) server designed specifically for Laravel applications. It connects your Laravel application with AI assistants using the MCP protocol. - kirs...

Full 30-Min Senior Dev Code Review – Web App BEST PRACTICES
youtube.com

Video by Nuno Maduro

Larakits - Community Starter Kits
larakits.codelabmw.dev

Discover community-maintained starter kits that help you build better Laravel applications faster.

gecche/laravel-multidomain
github.com

A Laravel extension for using a laravel application on a multi domain setting - gecche/laravel-multidomain

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