

Laravel News Podcast
Jacob Bennett and Michael Dyrynda
The Laravel News Podcast brings you all the latest news and events related to the Laravel PHP Framework
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Feb 1, 2024 • 40min
Laravel 11 is coming, Typesense, and creatin beautiful charts
Jake and Michael discuss the latest Laravel releases including Laravel 10.41 with conditional job chains and a new number::spell() threshold. They also talk about the introduction of Laravel 11 with the Dumpable Trait and eager load limit. The hosts introduce Aspen, an AI integrated API testing tool for macOS, and discuss the Laravel Live UK conference. They also cover topics such as creating beautiful charts in Filament with the Apex Charts Plugin and handling bulk imports in Filament.

Jan 18, 2024 • 32min
A three-week rapid recall
Jake and Michael discuss all the latest Laravel releases, tutorials, and happenings in the community.(01:02) - Laravel 10.35 released
(02:24) - Laravel 10.73 released
(03:59) - Laravel 10.40 - with a number clamp method, an APA-style helper, Vite asset path customization, and more
(06:08) - Laravel 10.41 - Conditional job chains, a Number::spell() threshold, configurable model:prune path, and more
(08:21) - Filament v3.1 is released
(10:38) - Introducing Filament v3.2
(12:50) - Heroicons Micro - icons for high-density UIs
(13:49) - What's new in Tinkerwell 4?
(15:06) - Laravel Reverb
(16:13) - FrankenPHP v1.0 is here
(17:25) - Laravel Octane now supports FrankenPHP
(18:23) - Alpine adds a new build to work with Content Security Policies
(19:53) - Laracon EU Amsterdam 2024
(20:23) - Laravel Live Denmark: A two-day event in Copenhagen, Denmark on August 22-23, 2024
(20:55) - Save the date: Laracon US is coming to Dallas TX Aug 27-28, 2024
(21:45) - DevDB - access your database right inside VSCode!
(22:58) - Easily manage temporary files in Laravel
(24:10) - Get insights into all your Laravel notifications with Paragraphs new package
(25:48) - Self-healing URLs in Laravel
(27:04) - Manage virtual wallets in Laravel with Pay Pocket
(28:15) - Share data between PHP and JavaScript with PHP2JS
(29:38) - Database status card for Laravel Pulse

Dec 20, 2023 • 50sec
Happy holidays and all the best for 2024
We at the Laravel News Podcast would like to wish our listeners a happy holidays, Christmas, Hannukah, Quanza, Festivus... however you celebrate this traditional downtime, we hope you get some time to relax.See you all in 2024!

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Dec 6, 2023 • 35min
More Pulse, LLMs, and feature flagsJake and Michael discuss all the latest Laravel releases, tutorials, and happenings in the community.
Laravel releases, PHP 8.3 features, Laravel Pulse performance monitoring tool, TallStackUI component library, using Ollama LLM models, composer dependency tracking in Laravel Pulse, feature flags implementation for Filament, generating validation rules from a database schema, Laravel Tailwind Merge

Nov 23, 2023 • 46min
Laravel Number Helper, Laravel Pulse, and lots of news
Jake and Michael discuss all the latest Laravel releases, tutorials, and happenings in the community.(08:34) - Laravel 10.32 Released
(13:46) - Laravel 10.33 Released
(16:28) - Introducing the Laravel Number Utility Class
(16:52) - Laravel Cyber Deals
(20:27) - Laravel Pulse is a health and performance monitoring tool for your Laravel applications
(26:44) - Stress testing with Pest with the new Stressless plugin
(32:32) - Tinkerwell v4 is now released
(35:32) - JetBrains now maintains the Pest plugin for PhpStorm
(36:43) - Artisan.Page now supports all first-party Laravel packages
(37:52) - Laravel Nova gets a fresh new website
(40:07) - Wirebox: Your Livewire Playground Awaits
(41:54) - Tailwind CSS: It looks awful, and it works
(42:26) - Nginx Configuration for old Forge servers
(42:57) - Learn how to impersonate users in your Laravel app
(43:43) - Make iTerm2 look fantastic
(43:55) - Conditionally Assert Throwing An Exception in Pest
(44:09) - How to Convert HTML to Plain Text in PHP
(44:26) - 7 Tips for Adding a Second Server to your App

Oct 18, 2023 • 37min
Volted Breeze, tomatoes, and splades
Jake and Michael discuss all the latest Laravel releases, tutorials, and happenings in the community.(02:52) - Laravel 10.26 released
(07:06) - Laravel Breeze with Volt functional API
(08:42) - Bolt SQL - Fast and beautiful database client
(15:45) - Run Pest tests in VS Code with Better PHPUnit
(16:48) - Configure and display a schedule of opening hours in PHP
(19:26) - PHP desktop and mobile user agent parser
(21:31) - Tomato PHP
(23:42) - LangCountry is a localization package for Laravel
(29:07) - Write Single Page Applications using Laravel Splade
(33:12) - Leveraging component caching with computed properties in Laravel Livewire
(33:53) - How to add a confirmation dialog with Livewire
(34:12) - How to remove all extra spaces in a string with Laravel
(35:50) - Building a sitemap in your Laravel app with the Spatie Sitemap

Oct 4, 2023 • 39min
Wiring boxes, consuming APIs, and testing form requests
Discussion on Laravel 10.25 release, hiring for video content, Livewire track in Laravel Bootcamp, Wirebox for Livewire, Laracon EU tickets on sale, Consuming APIs in Laravel, experimental package Pail for tailing logs, managing user's browser sessions, Unfinalize package, Form Request Tester Package, User Monitoring Package, Github Contributions Generator, using wire:navigate with Fathom Analytics.

Sep 20, 2023 • 38min
Buns in the Forge, tabulating data, and crawling the DOM
Jake and Michael discuss all the latest Laravel releases, tutorials, and happenings in the community.(04:16) - Laravel 10.23 released
(10:32) - Laravel 10.24 released
(12:55) - Support for Bun lands in Laravel Sail and Forge
(17:56) - Final release of Laracon AU 2023 tickets now on sale!
(19:31) - Laravel Collective HTML package is abandoned
(22:28) - Create tables for your models with Livewire Tables
(25:03) - Generate APIs with ease with Laravel Rest Api
(26:16) - Laravel Ecommerce with Lunar PHP
(27:18) - Tablar: A Laravel dashboard preset
(28:51) - Laravel Date Filtering package for Eloquent
(29:50) - Git Delta is a syntax highlighting pager for git, diff, and grep output
(31:55) - Symfony's DomCrawler with Laravel HTTP tests
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Sep 6, 2023 • 56min
Streaming jets, wrapping words, and ACID-compliant operations
Jake and Michael discuss all the latest Laravel releases, tutorials, and happenings in the community.(02:17) - Laravel 10.20 released
(14:04) - Laravel 10.21 released
(19:04) - Laravel 10.22 released
(25:53) - Livewire v3 has been released
(28:18) - Laravel Jetstream 4.0 with Livewire 3 support
(29:28) - Laravel String Wordwrap
(30:05) - Laracon EU 2024 - Save the date!
(31:50) - Pest Driven Laravel course is now on Laracasts
(32:58) - Mary UI: Laravel Blade components for Livewire 3
(34:42) - An introducton to Sharp for Laravel, an open source content management framework
(36:36) - Generate Saloon SDKs from Postman or OpenAPI
(39:56) - Boost your Eloquent models with Laravel Lift
(46:09) - MJML to HTML using PHP
(50:11) - Run GitHub Actions locally with Act
(51:55) - Laravel API toolkit
(53:01) - firstOrCreate() vs createOrFirst()
(53:17) - Using AWS S3 for Laravel storage
(53:33) - Using Language Servers in Sublime Text
(54:09) - Installing Xdebug with Laravel Herd

Aug 23, 2023 • 50min
Zero-downtime Forge, scrambling API documentation, and concerning enums
Jake and Michael discuss all the latest Laravel releases, tutorials, and happenings in the community.Honeybadger sponsors this episode - combining error monitoring, uptime monitoring and check-in monitoring into a single, easy to use platform and making you a DevOps hero.(04:00) - Laravel 10.19 released
(13:57) - Laravel Forge introduces zero downtime deployments with Envoyer integration
(15:49) - Laravel Herd v1.2.0 includes an app creation wizard, Tinkerwell integration, and more
(17:56) - Laravel Volt/Folio beta 5 is out, now with named routes
(19:52) - Cachet v3 announcement
(22:32) - The Laracon AU 2023 schedule is here
(23:38) - Generate API documentation for Laravel with Scramble
(26:51) - Sponsor: Honeybadger
(28:03) - Convert numbers to words in Laravel with SpellNumber
(31:12) - SpladePanel - create dashboards using Laravel Splade and Jetstream
(32:52) - Shorten URLs in your Laravel ap with the Cuttly package
(34:46) - EnumConcern - effortless enumeration handling in PHP
(37:41) - Lightweight permissions for Laravel with Ladder
(44:15) - UI Colors: Tailwind CSS color generator
(45:52) - Search for job son LaraJobs from Raycast
(47:42) - PHP max() function
(48:25) - Debugging gateway errors