One SaaS invoicing system. One AI agent. Zero hand-holding. Here’s exactly what it got right, what it got wrong, and what the workflow looks like in 2026. This is not a tutorial. It’s a report. I gave Claude Code a real task: build a complete… Read More »I Let Claude Code Build a Full Filament Admin Panel. Here’s What Happened.
Every comparison article says “it depends.” This one gives you the actual decision. Five questions. Five minutes. You’ll know which to use. “It depends” is the most useless answer in software development. Every Livewire vs Vue article you’ve read ends with a hedge: “choose based… Read More »Livewire v4 vs Vue 3 in 2026: I’ll Tell You Exactly Which One to Pick (No More “It Depends”)
Switch between OpenAI, Claude, and Ollama with zero code changes. Build tools, structured outputs, and testable AI features — the way Laravel intended. Here’s something the Laravel AI SDK announcement didn’t put in the headline: the official laravel/ai package uses Prism under the hood. Check… Read More »Most Developers Are Using AI Wrong in Laravel. Prism Fixes That.
You’ve been writing 3-4 lines of code for something that should take one. PHP 8.5 finally fixes it. Raise your hand if you’d have bet money that PHP already had array_first() and array_last(). Most developers assume these have always existed. They haven’t — and the… Read More »PHP 8.5’s array_first() and array_last() — Small Functions, Big Impact in Laravel
Not every new feature deserves your attention right now. Here’s the honest prioritisation guide for teams upgrading from v3 or v4. Let’s cut straight to the truth that the announcement headlines buried: Filament v5 has zero new Filament features compared to v4. Not a single… Read More »Filament v5 Is Out. Here’s What Actually Changed (And What You Should Upgrade for First).
Single-file components, Islands, parallel requests — Livewire v4 is a serious upgrade. But there’s one thing nobody’s warning you about. Livewire 4 is finally here, and it’s the biggest release yet. If you’ve been building with Livewire v3, you already know the fundamentals are solid.… Read More »I Upgraded to Livewire v4. Here’s the One Breaking Change That Will Catch You Off Guard.
The official Laravel AI SDK just dropped — and it makes everything you’ve built so far look like boilerplate. Be honest. Your current AI integration in Laravel looks something like this: Raw HTTP calls. Provider-specific endpoints. Manual message formatting. No conversation history. No testing. No… Read More »Stop Using Raw OpenAI Calls in Laravel. There’s a Better Way Now.
Laravel developers are ditching their JS frameworks and shipping faster than ever. Here’s the tool making it possible. There’s a specific kind of developer pain that nobody talks about enough. You’re building a Laravel app. The backend is clean, eloquent, fast. And then comes the… Read More »You’ve Been Writing Too Much JavaScript. Livewire Blaze Is the Wake-Up Call.
This debate is as old as Inertia itself. In 2026, there’s finally a clear answer — it just depends on which question you’re actually asking. Every Laravel developer building with Vue has faced this decision. Do you go Inertia — keep everything in Laravel, no… Read More »Inertia.js vs. API + Vue SPA in 2026: Which Should You Pick for Your Next Laravel Project?
Readonly properties were the right idea. Cloning them was the wrong experience. PHP 8.1 gave us readonly properties and the developer community immediately embraced them for DTOs, value objects, and domain models. Immutable-by-default objects felt like the right direction. The problem showed up the moment… Read More »PHP 8.5’s Clone-With Syntax: Cleaner Immutable DTOs in Laravel