Laravel Nova market size
I work at an agency and we use Nova internally, but I have no visibility into the broader market. Thinking about building some premium plugins but want to gauge if it's worth the time investment.
Anyone have insights on:
- How big is the Nova user base actually?
- Are people still actively buying Nova plugins?
- Is the ecosystem growing or shrinking?
I've tried researching this myself but there's surprisingly little public data on Nova adoption/market size. Would love to hear from other devs who've built plugins or agencies using it.
Thanks!
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I work at an agency and we use Nova internally, but I have no visibility into the broader market. Thinking about building some premium plugins but want to gauge if it's worth the time investment.
Anyone have insights on:
- How big is the Nova user base actually?
- Are people still actively buying Nova plugins?
- Is the ecosystem growing or shrinking?
I've tried researching this myself but there's surprisingly little public data on Nova adoption/market size. Would love to hear from other devs who've built plugins or agencies using it.
Thanks!
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What’s your production host, and why?
We use render.com and in all honesty, it’s fine. However migrating to it from heroku was a true hellscape.
I can’t think of anything render does that’s particularly annoying and the things that do annoy me, I know render has the featureset to make less annoying (like env variables across the main web service and all the workers, for example).
I’d love to know what everyone else is using and why they use it.
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We use render.com and in all honesty, it’s fine. However migrating to it from heroku was a true hellscape.
I can’t think of anything render does that’s particularly annoying and the things that do annoy me, I know render has the featureset to make less annoying (like env variables across the main web service and all the workers, for example).
I’d love to know what everyone else is using and why they use it.
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Laravel Nightwatch feature request
Please please please build in the ability to
Ignore "queued jobs" and "job attempts"
Maybe i'm dumb but i can't see why I want to track these
Sample queries
seeing 10% of my queries would be MORE THAN enough to get a picture of whats going on in my app.
i couldn't justify paying the money until this functionality is added. But i do want to use it, it's really cool apart from the above points.
For me and my app which is a pretty busy thing... counting every job, attempted job and every query makes it untenable financially.
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Please please please build in the ability to
Ignore "queued jobs" and "job attempts"
Maybe i'm dumb but i can't see why I want to track these
Sample queries
seeing 10% of my queries would be MORE THAN enough to get a picture of whats going on in my app.
i couldn't justify paying the money until this functionality is added. But i do want to use it, it's really cool apart from the above points.
For me and my app which is a pretty busy thing... counting every job, attempted job and every query makes it untenable financially.
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What features would you like added to Laravel Nightwatch?
I'd like to see added:
Ignore "queued jobs" and "job attempts"
Maybe i'm dumb but i can't see why I want to track these
Sample queries
seeing 10% of my queries would be MORE THAN enough to get a picture of whats going on in my app.
i couldn't justify paying the money until this functionality is added. But i do want to use it, it's really cool apart from the above points.
My product is very busy. counting every job, attempted job and every query makes it untenable financially.
I'm aware you can already control sampling to a certain extent. I'm looking for finer controls.
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I'd like to see added:
Ignore "queued jobs" and "job attempts"
Maybe i'm dumb but i can't see why I want to track these
Sample queries
seeing 10% of my queries would be MORE THAN enough to get a picture of whats going on in my app.
i couldn't justify paying the money until this functionality is added. But i do want to use it, it's really cool apart from the above points.
My product is very busy. counting every job, attempted job and every query makes it untenable financially.
I'm aware you can already control sampling to a certain extent. I'm looking for finer controls.
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Pecl down?
So Pecl seems to be down. Only for us or for everyone? :)
Build pipelines are failing due to 500s and 404s
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So Pecl seems to be down. Only for us or for everyone? :)
Build pipelines are failing due to 500s and 404s
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7 tips to make your Inertia.js site feel faster
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7 tips to make your Vue + Laravel site feel faster
Want your Laravel + Vue.js site to feel snappy? In this video, I show you seven practical techniques I used to make my site feel ridiculously fast from server-side rendering to clever link prefetching to those buttery-smooth image transitions. If you’re building…
Longhorn PHP is returning this fall - CFP open now!
Hey y'all - after skipping last year due to overlap with Laracon, we are bringing back Longhorn PHP for 2025. The CFP is open now, so please submit some talks! Key details:
When: October 23-25, 2025
Where: Austin,TX - Holiday Inn Austin Midtown
Website: https://www.longhornphp.com
CFP: https://cfp.longhornphp.com
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Hey y'all - after skipping last year due to overlap with Laracon, we are bringing back Longhorn PHP for 2025. The CFP is open now, so please submit some talks! Key details:
When: October 23-25, 2025
Where: Austin,TX - Holiday Inn Austin Midtown
Website: https://www.longhornphp.com
CFP: https://cfp.longhornphp.com
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SaaS with PHP: Libraries or Roll Your Own Multi-Tenancy?
While writing my recent newsletter release on multi-tenancy, I've started to think about in-house vs external library approaches for the tenant data isolation.
Most of the SaaS companies I worked with, or discussed the architecture with, had an in-house implementation, or they had none. By none, I mean the software they write is just single-tenant, and they spin up a fresh instance for each customer. That works for some business cases, for some it does not, but that is a different topic to discuss.
Back to in-house vs library. Currently, there are some good, ready-to-use solutions, such as Laravel Tenancy, which seem to cover most of the required flows, battle-proven, and easy to set up. On the other hand, when you know the approach you would like to have, writing your own implementation will take less than a day, or a couple of days in more complicated scenarios. In exchange, you get full control of how the multi-tenancy behaves, and both altering it to your needs as well as debugging should be easier. And the SaaS companies I talked with - each of them needed some very specific solutions perfectly tailored to their case.
What is your preference? I guess, when building the MVP, a ready-to-use solution seems a better choice, as long as the approach allows you to switch/extend it in the future. Each day saved might be crucial. In other cases, I prefer to implement my own solutions. in case you are interested in the newsletter edition on this topic: https://phpatscale.substack.com/p/php-at-scale-10
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While writing my recent newsletter release on multi-tenancy, I've started to think about in-house vs external library approaches for the tenant data isolation.
Most of the SaaS companies I worked with, or discussed the architecture with, had an in-house implementation, or they had none. By none, I mean the software they write is just single-tenant, and they spin up a fresh instance for each customer. That works for some business cases, for some it does not, but that is a different topic to discuss.
Back to in-house vs library. Currently, there are some good, ready-to-use solutions, such as Laravel Tenancy, which seem to cover most of the required flows, battle-proven, and easy to set up. On the other hand, when you know the approach you would like to have, writing your own implementation will take less than a day, or a couple of days in more complicated scenarios. In exchange, you get full control of how the multi-tenancy behaves, and both altering it to your needs as well as debugging should be easier. And the SaaS companies I talked with - each of them needed some very specific solutions perfectly tailored to their case.
What is your preference? I guess, when building the MVP, a ready-to-use solution seems a better choice, as long as the approach allows you to switch/extend it in the future. Each day saved might be crucial. In other cases, I prefer to implement my own solutions. in case you are interested in the newsletter edition on this topic: https://phpatscale.substack.com/p/php-at-scale-10
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PHP at Scale #10
Let’s make today some room for the topic of multi-tenancy. It is not required in all projects, but it definitely should be in a lot of them.
Trouble Logging from Laravel (Local) to Remote Elasticsearch on AWS – Any Tips?
Hey everyone!
I'm working on a Laravel project locally and for a test trying to send application logs to a **remote Elasticsearch cluster hosted on AWS**.
The idea is to centralize logs for auditability, and I'm using **Monolog** to push logs to a specific index.
# What I’ve done so far:
* Set up Laravel to use a custom Monolog handler with the `elasticsearch/elasticsearch` PHP client.
* Created a dedicated index (`custom-output-index-001`) on the remote host.
* Verified I can connect to the AWS host using cURL and basic auth.
* Confirmed the logs are being written *locally* if I point to a local Elasticsearch instance (`localhost:9200`).
# The problem:
When I switch the Elasticsearch host in the Laravel config to the remote endpoint (on AWS), **no logs show up in the remote index**, and I get **no exceptions or errors** in the Laravel logs.
# What I suspect:
* The client version (v9.x) may not be compatible with the remote ElasticSearch instance. I’m considering downgrading to the v7.x client which uses `application/json` instead of `application/x-ndjson`.
* Content-Type mismatch? The remote service may reject the format used by the newer client.
* Maybe a network/firewall/SIGv4 auth issue?
* Or the index mapping/settings on AWS Elasticsearch need to be adjusted to accept those documents?
# What I’d like to know:
* Has anyone successfully configured Laravel to log to a remote Elasticsearch endpoint?
* Did you have to downgrade the client library or tweak headers?
* Any best practices or gotchas when working with Elasticserach + Laravel?
This is myy current logging config
use Elastic\Elasticsearch\ClientBuilder;
use Elastic\Elasticsearch\Exception\AuthenticationException;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Log;
use Monolog\Logger;
use Monolog\Handler\ElasticsearchHandler;
use Monolog\Formatter\ElasticsearchFormatter;
class ElasticsearchLogger
{
/**
* @throws AuthenticationException
*/
public function __invoke(array $config): Logger
{
$client = ClientBuilder::create()
->setHosts([
[
'host' => MY_HOST,
'port' => ENV_PORT,
'scheme' => ENV_SCHEME,
'user' => '********', // ← Basic Auth username
'pass' => '*****', // ← Basic Auth password
]
])
->build();
$indexName = 'custom-output-index-001';
$handler = new ElasticsearchHandler($client, [
'index' => $indexName,
'type' => '_doc',
]);
$response = $client->info();
Log::debug("CLIENT",[$response]);
$formatter = new ElasticsearchFormatter($indexName, '_doc');
$handler->setFormatter($formatter);
return new Logger('elastic', [$handler]);
}
}
Thanks in advance!
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Hey everyone!
I'm working on a Laravel project locally and for a test trying to send application logs to a **remote Elasticsearch cluster hosted on AWS**.
The idea is to centralize logs for auditability, and I'm using **Monolog** to push logs to a specific index.
# What I’ve done so far:
* Set up Laravel to use a custom Monolog handler with the `elasticsearch/elasticsearch` PHP client.
* Created a dedicated index (`custom-output-index-001`) on the remote host.
* Verified I can connect to the AWS host using cURL and basic auth.
* Confirmed the logs are being written *locally* if I point to a local Elasticsearch instance (`localhost:9200`).
# The problem:
When I switch the Elasticsearch host in the Laravel config to the remote endpoint (on AWS), **no logs show up in the remote index**, and I get **no exceptions or errors** in the Laravel logs.
# What I suspect:
* The client version (v9.x) may not be compatible with the remote ElasticSearch instance. I’m considering downgrading to the v7.x client which uses `application/json` instead of `application/x-ndjson`.
* Content-Type mismatch? The remote service may reject the format used by the newer client.
* Maybe a network/firewall/SIGv4 auth issue?
* Or the index mapping/settings on AWS Elasticsearch need to be adjusted to accept those documents?
# What I’d like to know:
* Has anyone successfully configured Laravel to log to a remote Elasticsearch endpoint?
* Did you have to downgrade the client library or tweak headers?
* Any best practices or gotchas when working with Elasticserach + Laravel?
This is myy current logging config
use Elastic\Elasticsearch\ClientBuilder;
use Elastic\Elasticsearch\Exception\AuthenticationException;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Log;
use Monolog\Logger;
use Monolog\Handler\ElasticsearchHandler;
use Monolog\Formatter\ElasticsearchFormatter;
class ElasticsearchLogger
{
/**
* @throws AuthenticationException
*/
public function __invoke(array $config): Logger
{
$client = ClientBuilder::create()
->setHosts([
[
'host' => MY_HOST,
'port' => ENV_PORT,
'scheme' => ENV_SCHEME,
'user' => '********', // ← Basic Auth username
'pass' => '*****', // ← Basic Auth password
]
])
->build();
$indexName = 'custom-output-index-001';
$handler = new ElasticsearchHandler($client, [
'index' => $indexName,
'type' => '_doc',
]);
$response = $client->info();
Log::debug("CLIENT",[$response]);
$formatter = new ElasticsearchFormatter($indexName, '_doc');
$handler->setFormatter($formatter);
return new Logger('elastic', [$handler]);
}
}
Thanks in advance!
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New to php, but curious about it with Laravel
Hi guys,
I've been lurking some time now, and I want to try out php with Laravel.
Which editor do you guys recommend for php development?
Also any extensions that are useful?
Cheers!
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Hi guys,
I've been lurking some time now, and I want to try out php with Laravel.
Which editor do you guys recommend for php development?
Also any extensions that are useful?
Cheers!
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Commenter v3 is a game changer with nested reply support and much more!
https://github.com/Lakshan-Madushanka/commenter/releases/tag/3.0.0
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Release 3.0.0 · Lakshan-Madushanka/commenter
What's Changed [!Breaking Changes]
Feat: Add nested replies support. by @Lakshan-Madushanka in #130
format: renaming and changing folder structure by @Lakshan-Madushanka in #131
Format!: Chang...
Feat: Add nested replies support. by @Lakshan-Madushanka in #130
format: renaming and changing folder structure by @Lakshan-Madushanka in #131
Format!: Chang...
what are the quirks of php and what mindset should a php dev have ??
forgive if my words come out wrong and ill-informed
was told php is not an important language ,now have to work on it cuz I was a java dev. now i have to work in my hometown due to ma and pa so i have taken a php job
what makes a php dev great compared to say a java dev or c++ dev?? hidden quirks of the language and mindset
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forgive if my words come out wrong and ill-informed
was told php is not an important language ,now have to work on it cuz I was a java dev. now i have to work in my hometown due to ma and pa so i have taken a php job
what makes a php dev great compared to say a java dev or c++ dev?? hidden quirks of the language and mindset
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Tempest 1.0 is now released: a new framework for PHP web and application development embracing modern PHP
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Tempest 1.0 — Tempest
Tempest's first stable release
Job search realities
Recently started job searching. Where I work is great, but there's no room for growth. After 2 months of applying all over the place, I haven’t landed a single interview.
The pickings are slim unless you’re a Senior with a god-tier toolkit or a Junior willing to sell your soul for pennies on the dollar. Is it AI? Is it cheap outsourcing? I don’t fucking know lol. All I know is, at this rate, I’m gonna be stuck in the same role for years 😭😭😭
Anyone else got it worse?
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Recently started job searching. Where I work is great, but there's no room for growth. After 2 months of applying all over the place, I haven’t landed a single interview.
The pickings are slim unless you’re a Senior with a god-tier toolkit or a Junior willing to sell your soul for pennies on the dollar. Is it AI? Is it cheap outsourcing? I don’t fucking know lol. All I know is, at this rate, I’m gonna be stuck in the same role for years 😭😭😭
Anyone else got it worse?
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Looking for a php dev
Hello building a website based off of a template I have I would like a php dev that I can either pay for the project or pay per hour to change and make the template to my liking/needs. Feel free to message me your portfolio and rates please only message me if you speak perfect English I can’t deal with language barriers will be ignored if you ignore this thank you!
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Hello building a website based off of a template I have I would like a php dev that I can either pay for the project or pay per hour to change and make the template to my liking/needs. Feel free to message me your portfolio and rates please only message me if you speak perfect English I can’t deal with language barriers will be ignored if you ignore this thank you!
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TIL Trump Mobile (Donald Trump's new carrier service) has a website that is built with Laravel, Livewire and Filament.
As I'm sure you've heard, Trump Mobile is a thing now and I decided to check out their website earlier.
Other than the amusing 500 errors when you try to reset an account email that doesn't exist, and the multitude of errors from YouTuber's that have tested out the platform with an account.
I found out that Trump Mobile clearly uses Filament by navigating to the admin url (https://www.trumpmobile.com/admin) and has livewire stuff happening on the main site as well.
This isn't meant to be political, I just found it amusing that the site clearly uses Laravel and how clunky and untested the website is.
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As I'm sure you've heard, Trump Mobile is a thing now and I decided to check out their website earlier.
Other than the amusing 500 errors when you try to reset an account email that doesn't exist, and the multitude of errors from YouTuber's that have tested out the platform with an account.
I found out that Trump Mobile clearly uses Filament by navigating to the admin url (https://www.trumpmobile.com/admin) and has livewire stuff happening on the main site as well.
This isn't meant to be political, I just found it amusing that the site clearly uses Laravel and how clunky and untested the website is.
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What's your favorite PHP feature?
For me I really love reflection. I recently had to use the reflection api to handle serializing custom pre <php7 class-based enums as well as new native php8 enums at the same time, the reflection api (and *BackedEnum* interface) made this a breeze. I can see how you could make some really powerful frameworks with how powerful reflection is and it only makes me wonder why it isn't a staple of every language.
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For me I really love reflection. I recently had to use the reflection api to handle serializing custom pre <php7 class-based enums as well as new native php8 enums at the same time, the reflection api (and *BackedEnum* interface) made this a breeze. I can see how you could make some really powerful frameworks with how powerful reflection is and it only makes me wonder why it isn't a staple of every language.
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The BackedEnum interface
Casually achieving 600 req/s with a very simple PHP only WLP theme (PHP Swoole with Mostly Wordpress Compatible)
It seems PHP Swoole really takes PHP to the next level. This is even with some database calls. I can't post an image here, but for more info see r/WhitelabelPress
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It seems PHP Swoole really takes PHP to the next level. This is even with some database calls. I can't post an image here, but for more info see r/WhitelabelPress
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How much do we really need many tools we use ?
Hello,
I'm PHP developer since 2009. I worked on websites and pure backend. Always with heavy traffic and volumetry of data to manage.
Here a list of framework/tools/library I used:
- Symfony framework with some component (Cache, Serializer, HttpClient, Messenger)
- API Plateform
- Doctrine ORM
- React Admin
All of them seems great but... Do I/we really need them ? Are we using them because we need them or because:
- they were here before us in our current job ?
- we don't know how to do without them ?
- some people in events said it was great so it should be true ?
- we didn't master the basics so we try to dodge our weakness ?
At my job, we removed Api Plateform. Because it is not so difficult and it does not take so much time to implement our endpoints with Symfony 7. Less configuration to maintains, less magic code executed, less bugs from space, less time lost.
We also replaced Doctrine ORM by Doctrine DBAL. We write directly our request in SQL. More convenient to read, debug, check performance issue (EXPLAIN, EXPLAIN ANALYSE with pgsql). Entities are hydrated manually. Yes it take a little time to write the code which hydrate ann entity from a PHP array, but less configuration, less magic bugs, less over generic code managing all possible cases we don't have. We directly know what exactly is happening, better performance.
Do you really feel something similar ?
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Hello,
I'm PHP developer since 2009. I worked on websites and pure backend. Always with heavy traffic and volumetry of data to manage.
Here a list of framework/tools/library I used:
- Symfony framework with some component (Cache, Serializer, HttpClient, Messenger)
- API Plateform
- Doctrine ORM
- React Admin
All of them seems great but... Do I/we really need them ? Are we using them because we need them or because:
- they were here before us in our current job ?
- we don't know how to do without them ?
- some people in events said it was great so it should be true ?
- we didn't master the basics so we try to dodge our weakness ?
At my job, we removed Api Plateform. Because it is not so difficult and it does not take so much time to implement our endpoints with Symfony 7. Less configuration to maintains, less magic code executed, less bugs from space, less time lost.
We also replaced Doctrine ORM by Doctrine DBAL. We write directly our request in SQL. More convenient to read, debug, check performance issue (EXPLAIN, EXPLAIN ANALYSE with pgsql). Entities are hydrated manually. Yes it take a little time to write the code which hydrate ann entity from a PHP array, but less configuration, less magic bugs, less over generic code managing all possible cases we don't have. We directly know what exactly is happening, better performance.
Do you really feel something similar ?
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