What if you could spin up a full Laravel development environment without installing PHP, Composer, or even a local server — right inside a browser tab? That’s exactly what Liminal delivers. Built by Andrew Schmelyun, Liminal is a browser-based IDE that lets you write, run,… Read More »Liminal: A Browser-Based IDE for Laravel Powered by WebAssembly
Claude Code and Cursor can now install PHP versions, start services, secure sites, switch per-project PHP, inspect running queries, and read your environment variables — directly from the chat window. The gap between AI and local infrastructure closes. There’s a gap that every developer who… Read More »Laravel Herd Has an MCP Server. Your Local Dev Environment Just Became AI-Native.
JsonApiResource handles resource serialization, relationship inclusion, sparse fieldsets, links, meta, and the correct Content-Type header — automatically. No package. No spec-juggling. One Artisan command. Every team building a serious API eventually hits the same problem: everyone makes different decisions about how to structure responses, and… Read More »Laravel 13 Ships JSON:API Resources. Your API Just Got a Spec.
Covered agents, tools, and structured output. This is the rest. Five distinct multimodal capabilities, all under one package, all with fakes for your test suite. Here’s every API worth knowing. When the Laravel AI SDK launched in February 2026, the coverage was almost entirely about… Read More »The Laravel AI SDK Does More Than Text. Images, Audio, Transcription, Embeddings, and Vector Stores — All First-Party.
The big change: static guidelines that loaded everything all the time are replaced by on-demand Skills that load only what the current task needs. Plus 15 MCP tools, 17,000-document search API, and custom skill support. This is the most underwritten product in the Laravel ecosystem.… Read More »Laravel Boost 2.0 Ships Skills. AI Agents Now Understand Your Laravel App at a Package Level.
–parallel makes Pint 40× faster on large codebases. –format agent gives Claude Code and OpenCode structured JSON instead of human-readable text. extend lets you share a base config across every project. Three upgrades, one composer update. Laravel Pint has always been the best argument for… Read More »Pint Now Runs in Parallel. Your Entire Codebase Formats in Seconds — and AI Agents Get Their Own Output Format.
Zero breaking changes. PHP 8.3 minimum. PHP Attributes across the framework, passkeys native, the AI SDK stable, Reverb without Redis, Cache::touch(), Teams back in starter kits. March 17, 2026 — the day the Laravel ecosystem aligned. Taylor Otwell announced it at Laracon EU 2026 and… Read More »Laravel 13 Is Here. Everything That Shipped Today, and Why This Release Hits Different.
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.
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/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.