This Week in Laravel: Terminal Aliases, Filament Summaries, and Failover Queue

Hey hey, Useful Laravel links to read/watch for this week of October 16, 2025.

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4 Ways to Shorten Laravel Terminal Commands
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If you're tired of typing "php artisan" for many times, there are better ways. Let me show you. Also, read the comments, people show A LOT of their Terminal aliases.

WHEN to Use Cents vs. Floats for Money in Laravel DB? (Practical Example)
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There's a common advice to NEVER store money in decimal or float. But does it make the actual difference in typical Laravel projects? Let me show you a few examples.

Laravel Middleware with if-when (Three Syntax Options)
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Laravel starter kits have 2FA feature protected by Middleware in a few different ways. Let's explore Livewire and Vue versions.

Filament Table Summarizers: Practical Examples
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A dozen of examples of regular and custom summaries.

From Laravel Community

Two-Factor Authentication Now Available in Laravel Starter Kits
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All of our Laravel starter kits now support two factor authentication. Let's take a look together.

New in Laravel: Failover Queue Driver
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A tweet from Taylor Otwell.

Rector PHP For Laravel is ACTUALLY INSANE
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Video from Nuno Maduro.

Are you using Laravel Nightwatch or other observability tool? : r/laravel
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Since the launch of Laritor, I am struggling to get any traction despite being cheaper and offering more features than nightwatch. I also don’t see nightwatch being discussed much here or on x. So it makes me wonder, are Laravel developers not much interested in observability? or you already using a different product?

Laravel Strict Validation for Type Checking - Laravel News
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Laravel's strict validation parameters for numeric, boolean, and integer rules enforce exact type matching rather than allowing PHP's type coercion, preventing string values from passing as proper types during validation.

Image Manipulation in Laravel With Glide - Laravel News
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Glide for Laravel is a package that provides on-the-fly image manipulation using League/Glide. It offers Blade components for generating responsive images, URL signing for security, and seamless integration with Laravel's filesystem and caching layers.

Claude Agent Now Built Into PhpStorm AI Assistant - Laravel News
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The new Claude Agent is now seamlessly integrated into JetBrains IDEs via the AI chat and included in the JetBrains AI subscription. No extra plugins, no extra subscriptions—just advanced AI coding assistance right inside your IDE.

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