Stop wrestling with messy reference number generation in Laravel – the Referenceable package gives you customizable order numbers, invoice IDs, and tracking codes with just a few lines of configuration.

The XML Converter Package for PHP by Novak Urošević provides a simple helper to convert XML data into JSON and PHP arrays.

Laravel's Fluent class now implements the Iterable contract, enabling direct foreach iteration without toArray() conversions, creating cleaner code that feels more natural while maintaining full backward compatibility.

Beam is a feature flags library for the frontend, powered by Laravel Pennant. It features a lightweight footprint, with a simple, promise-based API and great TypeScript types.

Laravel's Cache::lock() creates atomic distributed locks that prevent race conditions by ensuring exclusive code execution, providing automatic expiration and seamless integration with multiple cache drivers for reliable concurrent operation management.

Redactable Models for Laravel is a package by Ashley Allen that allows you to redact, obfuscate, or mask data in your Laravel models.

The Feeds package for Laravel by Andrey Helldar is an easy and fast way to export large amounts of data into feeds for marketplaces and other consumers.

You've built custom collections and query scopes, but your reporting logic is still scattered across controllers, API endpoints, and commands. The same business insights get calculated differently in each place, making maintenance difficult and increasing…

The GeoGenius package for Laravel is a lightweight, flexible package that handles geolocation, timezone management, multilingual support, and more.

Laravel launches Laravel Learn with two free mini-courses

The Laravel team released version 12.29.0 this week with a new local debug page, a cache session driver, model resource PHP attributes, and more.

Laravel 12's Config::collection() method returns configuration arrays as Collection instances directly, removing the need to manually wrap arrays with collect() for fluent manipulation of structured configuration data.

PrettyPHP is an opinionated code formatter for PHP that is a fast, deterministic, and written in PHP. It has sensible defaults and runs without configuration.

Custom validation rules in Laravel encapsulate specific business logic into reusable components, improving code organization and testability while seamlessly integrating with the framework's validation system for consistent data validation.

Modern Laravel teams need speed, consistency, and a touch of pragmatism. LaraUtilX is a curated utility toolkit that streamlines the patterns you rely on every day—CRUD, API responses, validation, filtering, and more.

The Laravel team launched a public beta of Laravel MCP, a package to rapidly build Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for your Laravel applications.

Laravel's pluck method now supports closures for key and value parameters, enabling elegant data transformations during extraction without resorting to complex mapWithKeys operations for simple formatting needs.

The team at Sentry recently published a helpful guide on how to use Laravel’s built-in debugging tools as well as setting up Sentry to debug Laravel applications in production effectively.

You've built a powerful reporting system with custom collections, query scopes, and service layers, but how do you know it actually works? Without proper tests, every change is a risk, every refactor is scary, and bugs slip into production. In my latest video…

A modern, feature-rich debugging tool that makes PHP development a breeze. Available for Windows, Linux, and macOS.

Learn how to integrate MongoDB with Laravel by building a full developer blog. This step-by-step tutorial covers MongoDB fundamentals, setup, polymorphic models, CRUD operations, search, and content categorization.