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The Laravel ChronoTrace package enables you to record and replay Laravel requests deterministically and generate tests from production traces. This package can help you trace external HTTP requests made during execution, including request/response details, status codes, connection issues, and more. It also tracks database queries, cache events, queue jobs, and custom events.
Starting July 30, 2025, we’re making Laravel Idea free for PhpStorm users. If you already have the Laravel Idea plugin installed, you get full access to all plugin features at no extra cost.
Nuno Maduro was the second speaker at Laracon US 2025 on Tuesday, unveiling new features for the upcoming Pest v4.0. When we wrote about Nuno's Pest 3 talk at Laracon US in 2024, users had installed Pest over 18 million times. A year later, Pest has been installed around 39 million times!
Caleb Porzio presented Livewire 4 on the second day of Laracon US 2025, unveiling the next major version of Livewire. There's no way I can do justice to what Caleb presented, so do yourself a favor and watch Caleb's presentation at Laracon US 2025.
At Spatie, we've been developing large applications for years now. During those years we learned how to structure Laravel apps and that optimizing for readability really pays off in the long run.
In this tutorial, I will show you how to read content from a PDF file in Laravel 12 using the Spatie PDF-to-Text package. The Spatie PDF-to-Text package makes it easy to extract text from any PDF file without writing complex code.
Laravel View Creators execute immediately when views are instantiated, providing an earlier injection point than View Composers for preparing essential data required throughout the view rendering lifecycle.
Symfony AI is a set of components that integrate AI capabilities into PHP applications. This package comprises several lower- and higher-level components, along with their respective integration bundles. Before you get too excited, these AI components are currently marked as experimental, but you can start diving into the examples and demos:
Version 1.1 drops Monday, July 14, and it isn’t just a collection of fixes. It’s a foundational upgrade designed to make NativePHP apps easier to build, faster to ship, and ready for real production work — all using Laravel.
For developers starting their journey, getting practical experience can be a chicken-and-egg problem. Without hands-on exposure to real projects, it’s difficult to build the skills needed to land opportunities. Yet, without those opportunities, gaining experience feels impossible. This is where open-source projects become a godsend.
The term "coroutine" often comes up when talking about asynchronous or non-blocking code, but what does it actually mean? In this post, we will explore coroutines as a concept and see how PHP supports them through Generators and Fibers. Whether you're building pipelines, CLI tools, or preparing to dive into concurrency, understanding coroutines is an essential first step.
There may be times when you're writing a function in PHP that you know will never return a value. This could be because the function always throws an exception, or maybe calls exit or die. In these cases, you might want to use the never type.