Another weekly Laravel newsletter, and this week I launched a new course - update on AI agents for Laravel! I'm showing which one(s) I personally use, also re-trying PhpStorm along the way. The link below.
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From my LaravelDaily.com
[New Course] AI Agents/IDEs for Laravel: May 2026 (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, etc)
7 videos, 53 minutes. Most fresh information and practical experience of using agentic coding environments for Laravel projects in May 2026. Exclusively for Laravel Daily members: these videos will NOT be published on YouTube.
From my YouTube Channel
I Spent a Month on Upwork. My Conclusions and Advice for Devs.
I conducted an experiment with Upwork, reading Laravel jobs and pitching for some of them.
NEW Package Laravel Brain: Visualize your Codebase to Understand It Better
A new package was released and welcomed by the community, so I tried it out.
New Laravel Package Trace-Replay: Another Local Debugger but... Better?
A competitor for Telescope / Debugbar / Clockwork or even Laravel Nightwatch?
New Laravel Package AI GEO: Generate Schema for ChatGPT
The new wave of SEO is called GEO or AEO, so websites would be visible in AI agents answers.
From Laravel Community
Joe on X: "Did you know Laravel have an official OSS changelog?"
x.com
There is so much going on in the Laravel open source ecosystem, every month we round up some highlights so you can see what's new at a glance. There's even an RSS feed!
Joe on X: "Spinning up new Laravel apps via an agent?"
x.com
v5.27.0 of the Laravel Installer automatically detects when it is running within an agent, suppresses all decorative output, and returns concise JSON on both success and failure.
Pascal on X: "Inertia 3.1 is out, and it brings rescued deferred props!"
x.com
Your deferred prop might call a flaky third-party API or throw an exception. With the new rescue option, the exception is still reported, but your users won't see an error response.
I built a self-hosted alternative for laravel/nightwatch and it's open source : r/laravel
reddit.com
Posted a version of this yesterday on r/PHP and it seems some people liked it, so I'm very excited to bring it here as well. Hope you'll find it...
Jigar Dhulla on X: "Just released: laravel-whatsapp-ai-agent v0.0.1"
x.com
Connect AI agents to WhatsApp in a Laravel app: Config-based routing to multiple agents Conversation memory out of the box
Announcing MeliorStan v1 | Kevin Ullyott
kevinullyott.com
MeliorStan v1 is out. A PHPStan extension with custom rules for code quality, naming conventions, and design metrics.
Better Way to Debug Laravel Queries
youtube.com
Video by Punyapal Shah. If you're using toSql() to debug Laravel queries, you're missing the actual values.
Bilal Haidar on X: "Laravel AI SDK — tool example: live currency conversion (24/40)"
x.com
Bilal is doing a series on Twitter with AI SDK practical examples.
Searching multiple columns with one URL parameter in laravel-query-builder
freek.dev
We just released v7.3.0 of laravel-query-builder, which adds a new way to group multiple filters under a single URL parameter.
Steve Bauman on X: "Introducing Cadence: Model-based scheduling for Laravel"
x.com
- Attach recurring schedules to any Eloquent model using a driver-based architecture 2. Use simple cron expressions for basic schedules, or RRULE patterns for complex ones.
Aniket on X: "Sometimes you might want additional metadata for the processed jobs"
x.com
You must have used the queue:work command in Laravel, which basically starts a background worker responsible for processing your dispatched jobs. By default, this command outputs some details about the job that ran along with its status.
Newton Job on X: "You can very easily spin up Laravel queue workers via a scheduled command."
x.com
If you're deploying Laravel on shared hosting without access to something like supervisor, or you're like me and just prefer to manage these things in version control, this is definitely for you!
What's New in Laravel 13.7: JSON Assertions, @fonts & Worker Signals
youtube.com
Video by Christoph Rumpel. Laravel 13.7 brings a nice mix of developer experience improvements, frontend performance tooling, and better queue worker behavior.
The Easiest and Fastest Way to Build MCP and Claude Apps
laravel.com
From the official Laravel blog. Laravel MCP Apps let your MCP tools return live, interactive HTML, all rendered inline inside Claude and VS Code Copilot. One command to scaffold.
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