The two systems don’t conflict. But they don’t overlap the way you’d expect either. The rule is simpler than the confusion suggests: hooks for PHP classes, accessors for Eloquent attributes. Day 22 of this series covered PHP 8.4 property hooks in full. Day 20 covered… Read More »PHP 8.4 Property Hooks Inside Laravel Models. Here’s What Actually Works — and What Doesn’t.
Horizontal WebSocket scaling without Redis. One config change. Your existing MySQL or PostgreSQL database handles it. Here’s everything you need to know. There’s a tax on real-time features in Laravel. You want live notifications. You want a presence indicator showing who’s currently viewing a document.… Read More »Laravel 13 Adds a Database Driver for Reverb. You No Longer Need Redis for Real-Time.
The core was rewritten from scratch to enable asynchronous requests. Here’s every new feature, how each one works, and how to upgrade without breaking your app. The original version of Inertia.js had a fundamental architectural limitation: every request was synchronous. Full page visit, partial reload,… Read More »Inertia.js v2 Ships Async, Deferred Props, and Prefetching. Your Laravel SPA Just Got a Lot Faster.
Released February 5, 2026. Six providers. One unified API. Testable fakes, conversation memory, background queuing, RAG, and multimodal — all inside the Laravel patterns you already know. There’s a recurring arc in Laravel’s history. Something important exists as a community package. Laravel watches, learns from… Read More »Laravel’s Official AI SDK Just Landed. Here’s How to Build an Agent With Tools, Streaming, and Structured Output.
Getters and setters as we know them are obsolete. Property hooks and asymmetric visibility — shipped November 21, 2024 — change how PHP handles object state permanently. Fifteen years. That’s how long PHP developers have been writing getEmail() and setEmail() to control access to class… Read More »PHP 8.4 Property Hooks Are the Biggest OOP Change in Years. Here’s Every Pattern You Need.
Five releases. Five different problems. One unmistakable direction. I’ve been writing about Laravel every day for three weeks. This week was different. Not because any single release was unprecedented. Taylor has shipped remarkable things before — Livewire wire:navigate changing how SPAs feel, Horizon making queue… Read More »Laravel 13, Cloud CLI, MCP, NativePHP — The Laravel Ecosystem Just Had Its Best Week in Years.
Laravel 13 ships 9 model attributes. Here’s every single one with before/after code, edge cases you’ll actually hit, and a practical migration strategy for existing apps. Count the lines before your first method on any model you wrote last month. Four? Six? Eight? Every Laravel… Read More »PHP Attributes on Laravel Models Are Here. Your Eloquent Classes Are About to Get a Lot Cleaner.
laravel/mcp is in the official docs, MIT licensed, and already has 8.8 million installs. Here’s what it does, why it matters, and how to build one from scratch. Most Laravel developers are building three entry points into their applications: a web interface, a JSON API,… Read More »Laravel Has a Built-In MCP Server. Most Developers Don’t Know It Exists.
The core framework and all essential plugins are now open source. No license fee. No Swift or Kotlin. Just Laravel running natively on your phone. There’s a moment every PHP developer dreads. The client or boss says: “We also need a mobile app.” And you… Read More »NativePHP v3 Is Free, MIT Licensed, and Ready. Here’s How to Build a Native iOS App With Laravel Today.
Nightwatch MCP dropped February 17th. Here’s what it actually does, how to set it up in three steps, and the exact prompts that turn Claude Code into a production debugging partner. Picture the moment: you’re in a flow state, deep in a feature. Slack pings.… Read More »Your AI Agent Can Now Debug Your Laravel App. Nightwatch MCP Makes It Real.