Laravel secures a $57M Series A investment from Accel, with Taylor Otwell reaffirming its commitment to open-source and innovation. This funding will enhance Laravel Cloud and introduce new products aimed at improving full-stack web application development.

Check out the results of the State of Laravel 2024 survey! Key insights include a decrease in novice developers, a rise in SQLite adoption, and shifting preferences in frontend frameworks with Livewire+Alpine gaining traction. Vue.js sees a decline, while React remains stable. View the complete survey results.

Laravel v11.22.0 introduces a host of features along with various fixes. Notable updates include the introduction of Eloquent inverse relations, chaperone(), showcased at Laracon US. This release also adds BackedEnum support for route domain() and name() methods, and in the Queueable trait methods. Additionally, it includes PDO subclass support for PHP 8.4 and Content Security Policy (CSP) nonce support for prefetch script tags.

Shadcn now supports Laravel projects with Breeze using a single command.

Custom Eloquent Collections allow you to use a custom collection implementation for your models, enabling you to receive an instance of it anytime a model would typically return a collection.

class UserCollection extends \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection
{
    public function active()
    {
        return $this->filter(fn($user) => $user->is_active);
    }
}

class User extends Model
{
    public function newCollection(array $models = [])
    {
        return new UserCollection($models);
    }
}

$activeUsers = User::all()->active();

Discover the journey of Bref (a project that helps you go serverless) on AWS Lambda, which now processes over 40 billion requests monthly. Learn about the Bref project’s evolution since 2017 and its impact on advocating for PHP within AWS.

PHP 8.4 introduces property hooks, enabling custom behavior for class properties during get and set operations. This article explains their functionality and provides practical examples.

Explore the openai-php/laravel package, a community-maintained PHP API client that seamlessly integrates with the OpenAI API, enabling efficient interaction and implementation in Laravel projects.

Linear adopted an approach by prioritizing bug resolution above all tasks, ensuring defects are addressed promptly. This strategy has minimized their backlog, allowing for next-day fixes, and maintained product quality. Consider this proactive method for your software projects.

Explore unconventional software development methods, such as "start over each day" and "write everything twice" to enhance code quality and problem-solving efficiency. Emphasize repetitive practice and alternative solutions to improve engineering skills.