This week, the Laravel team released v11.8, with a new validation rule, the ability to fail a command outside the handle() method, create a view during make:mail, and more.

Laravel Top provides real-time monitoring directly from the command line for Laravel applications. It helps you track critical metrics and see the busiest routes in your application.

In Laravel, you can configure additional environment files that will load instead of the `.env` file. Let's look at how to do this, with some practical examples like using an '.env.testing' env file.

You can now prevent commands like database migrations from accidentally running in production environments. Learn how to use this upcoming feature in your Laravel 11 applications.

The DB Auditor package for Laravel helps you audit your MySQL database standards and provides options to add missing constraints via CLI.

This week, the Laravel team released v11.9, which includes a new default exception page, a way to prevent destructive commands from running, a withoutDelay() queue method, and more.

Time Warden is a lightweight PHP library that enables you to monitor processing time of tasks and allows take actions on thresholds that exceed defined execution time limits.

Laravel Eloquent Join With is a package that simplifies performing efficient database joins on existing Eloquent relationships of type HasOne and BelongsTo.

Validation is an important part of any web application. It can help to prevent security vulnerabilities, data corruption, and a whole host of other issues that can arise when you're working with user input.

Using data providers with feature tests can pose a problem because they run before Laravel is bootstrapped. Let's look at how to use Eloquent factories within PHPUnit data providers.

This week, the Laravel team released v11.10, with the ability to pass a callback to Builder::updateOrInsert(), support for soft-deleted models with explicit route model binding, and more.

The Chaotic Schedule package for Laravel allows you to randomize scheduled command execution time and date intervals via Pseudorandom number generators.

Laravel PostHog is a package integrating PostHog—a platform to analyze, test, observe, and deploy new features—with Laravel. Learn how to use this package with Laravel to start observing your app's features.

Fast Projects by Larafast: Real life, ready to use Laravel based Boilerplates

Sentry and Laravel announce a new partnership with Forge and Vapor

When Laravel moved to the new minimal default Exception Page in Laravel 11.9, Spatie released a Laravel Share Error package that brings back the ability to share your Laravel exceptions with others like the Laravel Ignition error page.

Laravel Herd v1.7 is out with updates to the dump UI

LALI Components is a Neovim plugin for autocompletion of Laravel and Livewire components by community member Ricardo Ramirez.

Creating a DateTime from a Unix timestamp will be more convenient in PHP 8.4 with the new createFromTimestamp() method.

The top admin panel library Backpack has just turned 8 years old. To celebrate, they're having a huge discount campaign.

Learn how you can test the JSON structure of responses in Laravel using powerful JSON assertion methods available in Laravel's TestResponse class.