Some new updates to Flare: performance monitoring, better Livewire support, MCP server

Flare, the original error tracker built for Laravel, was launched on stage at Laracon EU 2019.

Since then, our team at Spatie has steadily improved it by adding integrations, better PHP / JavaScript support and lots of smaller quality-of-life updates.

I’m happy to share that our big new feature, Performance Monitoring, is now available for everyone to try! After quite the journey (read our ‘Lessons from the deep end’ below) and a lengthy beta, I can now truly say that Flare is the application monitoring tool for Laravel I've always wanted. We've kept the price the same, so you're basically getting two products for the price of one.

Some other recent updates to Flare: better Livewire support and an MCP server, so your AI agents can pull errors straight from Flare and fix them right inside your code editor.

* Blog post: [https://flareapp.io/blog/introducing-flares-next-big-feature-performance-monitoring](https://flareapp.io/blog/introducing-flares-next-big-feature-performance-monitoring)
* Lessons from the deep end: [https://flareapp.io/blog/lessons-from-the-deep-end](https://flareapp.io/blog/lessons-from-the-deep-end)
* MCP server: [https://flareapp.io/docs/flare/general/our-mcp-server](https://flareapp.io/docs/flare/general/our-mcp-server)

We’ve got a bunch more improvements in the works over the next few months. If you’ve used Flare before, I’d love to hear what you think so far, what could make it better? And if you haven’t tried it yet… which error tracker are you using now and why?

If you have any technical questions about how Flare works under the hood, I'm happy to answer those as well!


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Symfony 7.3.7 released
https://symfony.com/blog/symfony-7-3-7-released?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Symfony%20Blog%20Feed

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Symfony 6.4.29 released
https://symfony.com/blog/symfony-6-4-29-released?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Symfony%20Blog%20Feed

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CVE-2025-64500: Incorrect parsing of PATH_INFO can lead to limited authorization bypass
https://symfony.com/blog/cve-2025-64500-incorrect-parsing-of-path-info-can-lead-to-limited-authorization-bypass?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Symfony%20Blog%20Feed

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Symfony 5.4.50 released
https://symfony.com/blog/symfony-5-4-50-released?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Symfony%20Blog%20Feed

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What would you like to see in a web framework?

Hi Peeps!

I'm not a PHP specialist myself but rather I build dev tools (open source). I am knee deep in building a next gen web framework (in Rust) with possible PHP bindings among other languages.

So, with this longish exposition out of the way, my question is - what are the requirements from your end, as developers for a framework ? What would you like to see, and what would you defintely not like to see? Any suggestions or recommendations?


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Game changing editions — some thoughts on how to move PHP forward
https://stitcher.io/blog/game-changing-editions

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New in Symfony 7.4: DX Improvements (Part 2)
https://symfony.com/blog/new-in-symfony-7-4-dx-improvements-part-2?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Symfony%20Blog%20Feed

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What are you doing to make your project or codebase more AI-friendly for coding agents?

Pretty much what the noscript says. I want to spend some time improving the codebase and processes we have so coding agents like Claude Code or Junie can write higher-quality code that adheres to styling specs and is well-tested.

I've not done much so far outside of using Laravel Boost and customising the template a bit.

I feel like there could be more, though. When using AI it still sometimes uses the wrong code style or writes pretty bad code.


I'm open to tips!

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Symfony 8.0.0-RC1 released
https://symfony.com/blog/symfony-8-0-0-rc1-released?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Symfony%20Blog%20Feed

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Symfony 7.4.0-RC1 released
https://symfony.com/blog/symfony-7-4-0-rc1-released?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Symfony%20Blog%20Feed

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Recording video on a phone from Laravel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LB2HPhKHuY

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Make PHPUnit tests Perfect in 15 Diffs
https://getrector.com/blog/make-phpunit-tests-perfect-in-15-diffs

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e-Invoicing and Peppol in Europe with PHP

PHP is used in a lot of commerce software, so I think this is a suitable topic to discuss in this subreddit.

Soon all companies need to send their invoices into the Peppol network. Who is already doing this? What is your experience?

Easiest way is to make use of a Peppol access point / provider which offers a REST API. What provider would you recommend?

Are there any good libraries to use?

I'm considering using Billit. They offer reasonable pricing for small quantities of invoices. They give a lot of information in a clear way on their website. They offer both a portal and an API.

An SDK exists for Billit, but it hasn't seen a commit since 3 years...

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Laravel Cloud Now Has Managed WebSockets
https://youtu.be/ZQBFEgugbtc

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SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025: Blast Off Your CI with Dagger
https://symfony.com/blog/symfonycon-amsterdam-2025-blast-off-your-ci-with-dagger?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Symfony%20Blog%20Feed

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Generate SVG image charts with PHP to be able to use it in web and pdf at the same time.
https://github.com/brainfoolong/php-noscript-charts

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Staying relevant today as a PHP Developer

I have always been a big PHP fan and used it now for near 20 years now.

Being a PHP developer has always had a stigma, like somehow you aren’t a real developer and pretty much sneers from other developers like Java or Python.

This was never an issue for me as there was always plenty of good paying jobs so I didn’t let it bother me too much.

But now I am out of a job in the UK and there is a real lack of jobs in PHP, and the majority that are hiring are offering a poor salary compared to other languages. Which makes no sense, especially with the likes of Node.js which is just JavaScript.

Even now I build microservices on AWS using PHP and Bref, it works great and extremely fast and powerful.

Recruiters even hit me with the “oh PHP” and I can’t get a look in. These PHP jobs that are hiring don’t even respond to me or I get an auto rejection. My previous salary was 120k and now I’m getting turned down for jobs at 40-50k.

What are people’s thoughts? Unfortunately I think it is time to reinvent myself, maybe move to Go, Rust or Python?

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Breaking mPDF with regex and logic
https://medium.com/@brun0ne/breaking-mpdf-with-regex-and-logic-bf915300483f

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How WithCachedRoutes and WithCachedConfig sped up a modular monolith's test pipeline
https://cosmastech.com/2025/11/13/improve-modular-test-suite-performance.html

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Alternative book for Jon Duckett php and mysql book, that use postgresql instead.

Does anyone here know any alternative book?
mysql in my country are rarely (not rarely it most used on a older project, but all the job require senior level. )used in company, company mostly use postgresql specially the new company project.

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