🚀 New Tool: Lact – Call Laravel Controller Methods Directly from the Frontend

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to introduce a new open-source tool called Lact, designed to simplify the connection between JavaScript/TypeScript frontends and Laravel backends.

Lact allows frontend developers to call Laravel controller methods directly from the frontend, without manually defining routes or writing repetitive fetch/Ajax logic.

### Key Features:
- 🔁 Skip routes/calling boilerplate – directly invoke controller methods from JS/TS
- 📦 Automatic route generation
- 📘 Works seamlessly with React, Vue, or any JS framework

Inspired by WayFinder the idea behind Lact is to streamline Laravel + JS development and make the backend feel just as accessible as calling a local function.

📚 Documentation: getlact.com
💻 GitHub: msamgan/lact

If you're building Laravel apps with a modern frontend, this might save you some time.
Would love your thoughts – and if you like it, please consider starring the repo ⭐ to support the project!

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Looking for new projects ideas

Hi everyone,

I was laid off at the beginning of this year. Since then, I’ve been attending interviews, but I’m still looking for a new opportunity.

Yesterday, I built a small project: a software tool that lets users share a message with a time limit—after the time expires, the link and message are destroyed. I created it mainly to practice my coding skills.

This is the repo: https://github.com/bryanmoreira/expireit

I’d love to hear suggestions for other project ideas, preferably more complex ones. I’m currently struggling to come up with problems that I can solve with code.

Thanks in advance!

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A Week of Symfony #954 (April 7–13, 2025)
https://symfony.com/blog/a-week-of-symfony-954-april-7-13-2025?utm_source=Symfony%20Blog%20Feed&utm_medium=feed

https://redd.it/1jy49gx
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My tech lead refused to migrate from pure php to Laravel because he doesn't trust them.

Yesterday I had a tense argument with my tech lead and the ceo of our company about our ERP system that is written in pure php. I have suggested that the current codebase is really hard to understand because it does not follow any design pattern. On the other hand, we are hiring new devs soon and it's my responsibility to guide them throughout the code. However, he completely refused and said what if Laravel has been sold to a Chinese company in the future? We don't want to make our fate in their hands.
Are those fears legit? I mean do you think pure php really provides more freedom than Laravel?


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Weekly /r/Laravel Help Thread

Ask your Laravel help questions here. To improve your chances of getting an answer from the community, here are some tips:

What steps have you taken so far?
What have you tried from the documentation?
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Please don't post a screenshot of your code. Use the code block in the Reddit text editor and ensure it's formatted correctly.

For more immediate support, you can ask in the official Laravel Discord.

Thanks and welcome to the r/Laravel community!

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Currently, what’s the best Laravel Next.js starter available out there?

People use it? next with laravel api first?

Ive been doing a package and just got curious about the current choices out there. And well, surprising no one, it’s another one like wayfinder

but mine uses attributes instead of complete auto discovery, but generates models, requests, controllers, validation, routes

all typed ready to do api calls



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Weekly Ask Anything Thread

Feel free to ask any questions you think may not warrant a post. Asking for help here is also fine.

https://redd.it/1jyp9dj
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Weekly help thread

Hey there!

This subreddit isn't meant for help threads, though there's one exception to the rule: in this thread you can ask anything you want PHP related, someone will probably be able to help you out!

https://redd.it/1jyrvsh
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How I Build SaaS Using Backpack for Laravel
https://backpackforlaravel.com/articles/tutorials/how-to-build-saas-using-backpack-for-laravel

https://redd.it/1jysm25
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Issue with Asset Mapper in Symfony (CSS import)

Hi everyone,

I'm working on a Symfony project and using Asset Mapper for the first time. I'm having trouble importing CSS files into a main CSS file. Here’s the situation:

- My admin.css file works fine when I add CSS directly to it.
- However, when I try to use @import './components/admin/_stat_card.css' inside admin.css, it doesn’t work.

### Additional details:
- The path seems correct (based on my project structure), but in the browser, I get the following error:

  GET https://localhost/assets/styles/components/admin/_stat_card.css net::ERR_ABORTED 404 (Not Found)
  

- Here’s the structure of my assets/ folder:

  assets/
  ├── styles/
  │   ├── admin.css
  │   └── components/
  │       └── admin/
  │           └── _stat_card.css
  

### Asset Mapper Configuration:
Here is my config/packages/asset_mapper.yaml file:

framework:
    asset_mapper:
        # The paths to make available to the asset mapper.
        paths:
            - assets/
        missing_import_mode: strict

when@prod:
    framework:
        asset_mapper:
            missing_import_mode: warn

### What I’ve checked:
1. The _stat_card.css file exists in the correct location.
2. I used the command php bin/console asset-map to confirm that my files are properly mapped.
3. I tried using a relative path in the import, like this: @import './components/admin/_stat_card.css';.

Despite all this, the error persists, and the imported file is not found.

### Questions:
- Did I miss something in my configuration?
- Does Asset Mapper handle CSS imports (@import) as I expect?

Thanks in advance for your help!

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PHP and Service layer pattern

Hello, I have a small SaaS as a side product, for a long time I used to be a typical MVC guy. The views layer sends some requests to the controller's layer, the controller handles the business logic, then sends some commands to the model layer, and so on. By the time the app went complicated - while in my full-time job we used to use some "cool & trendy" stuff like services & repository pattern- I wanted to keep things organized. Most of the readings around the internet is about yelling at us to keep the business logic away of the controllers, and to use something like the service layer pattern to keep things organized. However, I found myself to move the complexity from the controller layer to the service layer, something like let's keep our home entrance clean and move all the stuff to the garage which makes the garage unorganized. My question is, how do you folks manage the service layer, how to keep things organized. I ended up by enforcing my services to follow the "Builder Pattern" to keep things mimic & organized, but not sure if this is the best way to do tho or not. Does the Builder Pattern is something to rely on with the services layer? In the terms of maintainability, testability ... etc.

Another direction, by keeping things scalar as much as possible and pass rely on the arguments, so to insert a blog post to the posts table & add blog image to the images table, I would use posts service to insert the blog post and then get the post ID to use it as an argument for the blog images service.

https://redd.it/1jyurvf
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Should a Backend Engineer Learn AI or Focus Solely on Backend Skills? How to Become a Senior Backend Engineer?

Should a backend engineer consider learning more about AI, or is it better to concentrate on strengthening backend-specific skills? What are the best ways to become a senior backend engineer?

https://redd.it/1jyvg95
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Xdebug hangs on breakpoint after upgrading to PHP 8.3

https://preview.redd.it/w39y5sfprsue1.png?width=2048&format=png&auto=webp&s=63c94720f4b58659529206cfaf3a0879c1a893d0

Not sure if this is the right sub for this, but here it goes.

I'm currently upgrading from PHP 7.4 to PHP 8.3, and I'm running into a really strange issue when using Postman to make requests to my API while debugging with Xdebug.

https://preview.redd.it/xidh3g60tsue1.png?width=822&format=png&auto=webp&s=1c9bce5279cd45936a86b3848400ab2ffe483b19

If I don’t set any breakpoints in the code, everything works fine and I get the expected response. But if I set any breakpoint (literally anywhere), the request just hangs and eventually fails with an error in Postman.

On the PHPStorm side, everything seems to be properly configured — PHP version, Xdebug port, path mappings, etc.

I’ve tested a ton of things already, and I’m quite certain the issue is with Xdebug itself — but I can’t figure out if it’s a misconfiguration in PHPStorm or if I’m just doing something wrong.

I'm using:
PHP 8.3.8
Xdebug 3.3.2
Symfony 5.9.1

Any ideas or pointers would be greatly appreciated!

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Need Better Filtering, Searching & Sorting for DataTables in Laravel? Check Out Query Builder Criteria! 🚀

https://preview.redd.it/f3yxxnr8ntue1.png?width=1712&format=png&auto=webp&s=246f8771f46dac46f6932422c04208016cc30c44



Hey everyone! I just released a Laravel package called Query Builder Criteria, designed to make filtering, sorting, and paginating large datasets much easier—especially for datatables, admin panels, and management apps.

🔹 Automatically applies filters & sorting from the request query string
🔹 Encapsulates query logic into reusable, maintainable criteria
🔹 Keeps controllers & repositories clean
🔹 Works seamlessly with pagination for large datasets

If you’re tired of cluttered query logic and want a clean, scalable approach to handling dynamic queries, check it out on GitHub:

🔗 **github.com/omaressaouaf/query-builder-criteria**

Would love to hear your thoughts—feedback & contributions are welcome! 🚀

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Data modeling a course platform with Laravel and Stripe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoCTIqthNRw

https://redd.it/1jz7071
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PHP Error Types Explained - Warnings, Notices, Fatal Errors, etc.

The article explains the different types of errors encountered in PHP programming and their significance: Common PHP Error Types Explained - Warnings, Notices & Fatal Errors

It categorizes PHP errors based on their severity and impact on noscript execution, providing examples and solutions for each type. The main error types discussed include fatal errors, parse errors, warnings, noticse, deprecated errors.

The article also includes debugging strategies and emphasizes the importance of understanding these error levels to ensure effective troubleshooting and maintain best practices in PHP development. It also includes debugging strategies and emphasizes the importance of understanding these error levels to ensure effective troubleshooting.

https://redd.it/1jzip2p
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Form data validation with regular expression

My form builder site allows users to specify a regular expression for html 5 input pattern validation.

In addition to validating this on the client side with html5, the service also validates on the server side after submission as client side validation can be circumvented (e.g. by removing the pattern attribute in browser dev tools).

Client side regex on pattern attribute is compiled with the "v" flag which "enhances Unicode support in regular expressions, enabling the use of set notation, string literals within character classes, and properties of strings".

On the server side my noscript checks the input matches the pattern but the "v" flag is not available in php regex functions (I'm on php 8.3) so I am using the "u" flag.

Is this likely to fail in any circumstance? Is there a way to ensure the results are the same in JS and PHP?

Thanks guys.

https://redd.it/1jzlavw
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Simple php based anayltics

I have just created a very simple self hosted anayltics noscript: https://github.com/elzahaby/php-analytics/tree/main

would love to hear your opinon. The goal was to create a simple but useful anayltics noscript that allows me to ditch google analytics and since it is based on server data it doesn't require any cookies consent as far as I know.

Looking forward to hear your thoughts and what features you wish for or how to improve it :)

https://redd.it/1jzpu5a
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SymfonyLive Paris 2025: Recap and replay!
https://symfony.com/blog/symfonylive-paris-2025-recap-and-replay?utm_source=Symfony%20Blog%20Feed&utm_medium=feed

https://redd.it/1jzu1rt
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A new #phpstan capability which will be available with the upcoming release: Remembered types from constructor
https://staabm.github.io/2025/04/15/phpstan-remember-constructor-types.html

https://redd.it/1k00lnx
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Locale-Aware Compact Number Formatting in PHP with NumberFormatter
https://ungureanu.blog/2025/04/15/locale-aware-compact-number-formatting-in-php-with-numberformatter/

https://redd.it/1jzbl8q
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