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Generating OG images at the edge on Cloudflare
Matt Rothenberg walks through how to generate dynamic Open Graph images on Cloudflare Workers. A practical guide covering the full setup from rendering to caching. Read more
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Speed up your Livewire tests
Michael Dyrynda found that switching from fill() to set() in Livewire tests reduced his test suite from 22 seconds to 4 seconds. The difference: fill triggers a Livewire round-trip per field, while set batches them Read more…
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Liminal – A full Laravel playground in your browser
A static, free, and open-source Laravel playground that runs entirely in the browser! Comes with a sqlite db, artisan commands, two-way file syncing, github imports, and more. Read more
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★ What’s new in laravel-activitylog v5
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We just released v5 of laravel-activitylog, our package for logging user activity and model events in Laravel.
In Flare, Mailcoach, and Oh Dear we use it to build audit logs, so we can track what users are doing: who changed a setting, who deleted a project, who invited a team member. If you need something similar in your app, this package makes it easy.
This major release requires PHP 8.4+ and Laravel 12+, and brings a cleaner API, a better database schema, and customizable internals. Let me walk you through what the package can do and what's new in v5.
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★ A better way to crawl websites with PHP
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Our spatie/crawler. package is one of the first one I created. It allows you to crawl a website with PHP. It is used extensively in Oh Dear and our laravel-sitemap package.
Throughout the years, the API had accumulated some rough edges. With v9, we cleaned all of that up and added a bunch of features we've wanted for a long time.
Let me walk you through all of it!
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Rethinking our frontend future at Spatie
Nick wrote about how native browser features like the dialog element, the Popover API, and anchor positioning could eventually replace much of what we use shadcn and Radix for at Spatie today. A thoughtful look Read more…
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Moving from PHPStorm to Zed for Laravel development
Chris Mellor wrote a practical guide on setting up Zed as a Laravel IDE, covering PHP extensions, Pint formatting, Blade support, and how it compares to PHPStorm. Read more
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Chat with your documents: a practical guide to RAG using the Laravel AI SDK
A thorough walkthrough of building a RAG system in Laravel using the new AI SDK, Postgres for vector storage, and Livewire 4 for a streaming chat UI. Covers everything from what RAG is and how Read more…
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Build an MCP server with Laravel
Daniel Coulbourne walks through building an MCP server with the official laravel/mcp package. He built one for his blog in about 20 minutes, then used it to write and publish the post you’re reading. Read Read more…
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Run seeders from migrations
A practical look at why you should populate essential data from migrations instead of seeders. Once your app is live, manually running seeders becomes a deployment risk. Migrations are deterministic, automatic, and roll back cleanly. Read more…