How a Five Line Architecture Test Caught a Data Leak a Code Review Missed
TL;DR: Pest PHP can test the structure of your code, not just its behavior. Write your team rules as architecture tests and CI enforces them on every …
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One Nullable Timestamp, Four Account States: Deriving User Status in Laravel
Most of today went into a user-management overhaul in kickoff — my Laravel starter kit. Flyout CRUD panels, bulk actions, permission assignment, and t…
Deep-Linkable Livewire: Scoping a Browser to the Thing You Clicked
Today's work was a small piece of UX that's easy to underestimate: making an admin "browser" page scope itself to whatever you clicked to get there. T…
Making encrypted Laravel config backups portable across APP_KEYs
Here's a fun one. You build a package that backs up an app's config — the .env plus the settings stored encrypted in the database — into a single pass…
Building a Permission-Gated MCP Server in Laravel (Without Opening a Backdoor)
I spent today wiring an MCP server into a Laravel app that manages a Kong API gateway. The interesting part wasn't "make the AI talk to the app" — tha…
How to Integrate OpenAI API with Laravel (Complete Guide 2026)
How to Integrate OpenAI API with Laravel (Complete Guide 2026) Laravel is the most popular PHP framework, and adding OpenAI to it is straightforward w…
Build a versioned Laravel API with auto-generated OpenAPI docs in 10 minutes
TL;DR — We'll install dskripchenko/laravel-api , write one controller, and end up with a versioned API ( /api/v1/... ) and interactive OpenAPI 3.0 doc…
Laravel `Bus::bulk()`: Faster Dispatch, Harder Queue Tradeoffs
Bus::bulk() is not a fancy alias for dispatch() in a loop, and it is definitely not a lighter Bus::batch() . In Laravel 13, it is a lower-level dispat…
How I Refactored a 1,200-Line Filament Resource Into Something I Could Actually Maintain
Originally published at hafiz.dev You know the resource is in trouble when scrolling to table() takes three full page-downs past the form definition. …
Stop Fake Webhooks: Master HMAC Signatures in Laravel 🛡️
The Webhook Spoofing Vulnerability When engineering a B2B SaaS platform at Smart Tech Devs, relying on external services like Stripe, Shopify, or GitH…
Database Optimization Techniques for High-Traffic Laravel Applications
Your Laravel app works great in development. A few hundred users hit it in production and suddenly query times balloon, your server sweats, and you're…
I shipped a support desk by deleting a dependency
I added a support desk to LaraFoundry this week. The first commit in the slice removed a package instead of adding one. LaraFoundry is a reusable SaaS…
Typed Eloquent boundaries without building a second ORM
Most Laravel teams do not need to "fix" Eloquent. They need to stop letting raw model state leak too far into code that makes real business decisions.…
Flaky Tests in Laravel: Why Your CI Randomly Fails
Your test suite passes locally. CI fails. You rerun the pipeline. Now everything is green. You change absolutely nothing. An hour later, another rando…
Building a ReAct Chat Agent with the Laravel AI SDK
Building a ReAct Chat Agent with the Laravel AI SDK This tutorial walks through how to build a streaming, chat assistant on top of the Laravel AI SDK …
What We Learned Building a Multi-Tenant Payroll Engine in Laravel
Payroll software looks simple from the outside. You multiply hours by rate, subtract taxes, and send a number to a bank. That's it. Then you actually …
PHP Generics Already Exist: They're Just Hidden in PHPDoc
Every Laravel dev has written PHP generics. You just wrote them inside a comment and pretended it didn't count. /** @return Collection<CartItemDTO&…
Laravel Google Sheets v1.1.0: Diff Previews, Sync Methods, Dry Runs, and Retry Backoff
Google Sheets is often where business workflows begin. For Laravel apps, that usually means imports, exports, internal dashboards, user-managed spread…
Laravel Billing: one package, every gateway, working on day one
Every SaaS billing integration starts the same way: you pick a provider, pull in their package, wire it up — and three months later when the business …
PII Protection in PHP without a framework holding the leash
Every app that touches personal data eventually hits the same wall. You've got a national_id column, an email , a phone number, maybe a credit card. C…
Frank: your supercharged Laravel Sail alternative
Today I'm super excited to come out of the shadows (as a "corporate developer") and finally propose the community something that (maybe) can be useful…
Copilot написал трекер привычек на Laravel, а я выложил код на Github
Зачем на свете нужен ещё один трекер привычек? Их же и так - на любой вкус и цвет. Проблема в том, что ни один из них не нравился моей жене, поэтому п…
Stop Using UUIDs: Why B2B SaaS Needs ULIDs in Laravel 🐘
The Problem with Auto-Incrementing IDs When building a B2B SaaS platform at Smart Tech Devs, using standard auto-incrementing integers (1, 2, 3) for y…
Powering Your Progress: Building Robust Solutions with Laravel
In today's dynamic digital environment, merely functional web solutions fall short. Businesses and individuals demand applications that are powerful, …
Stop Wasting Hours: The Production-Ready Laravel 12 + Docker Starter Kit (CI/CD Included)
Setting up a new Laravel project for production is always a headache. You need to configure Nginx, optimize PHP-FPM, set up Supervisor for your queue …
Laravel Google Drive Filesystem: Unlimited Cloud Storage with Familiar Syntax
The Storage Dilemma: Unlocking Unlimited Cloud Power in Laravel with Google Drive As seasoned developers, we've all been there. You're building a fant…
From idea to indexed: how I launched a SaaS in 60 days with Laravel + React
60 days from first commit to Google indexing. Here's what I built, what stack I chose, and what actually slowed me down. What I built QRflows is a dyn…
Contributing to Laravel Maestro Starter Kits Without Losing Your Changes
What is Maestro Maestro is an upstream generator repository for generating and managing Laravel starter kits. The following starter kit repositories a…
Inspector.dev (Neuron), Laravel AI SDK, and Prism PHP: A Practical Comparison for Laravel Developers
The PHP and Laravel ecosystem has had a quiet revolution in the past year. Where once you had to piece together raw HTTP calls to OpenAI's API and wri…
Stop Sending Test Emails to Your Own Inbox: Use This Instead
If you're learning backend development, chances are you've tested emails by sending everything to your personal Gmail inbox. I did the same when I sta…