This post compiles all the Laracon EU 2025 presentations, providing direct access to the videos along with a brief summary of each talk. It’s a one-stop resource to catch up on every session from the event.

A summary of the new projects: Taylor Otwell's Laravel Cloud and starter kits, Jess Archer's Laravel Nightwatch, Aaron Francis's Fusion for PHP+JS, and Simon Hamp's NativePHP for mobile apps.

This article explains higher order messages. It describes what higher order messages are and shows examples of their usage, providing a clear overview of the concept.

Blade::directive() method allows you to define custom Blade directives, making your views more expressive and reusable. This is useful when you want to simplify repetitive logic or format data consistently across your templates.

Blade::directive('currency', function ($amount) {
    return "<?php echo number_format($amount, 2); ?>";
});

Then, you can use it as:

<p>Price: @currency(1999.99)</p>

The State of Developer Ecosystem Survey 2024 reveals trends in PHP development, highlighting PHP 8 adoption, Laravel's popularity, and the increasing use of AI tools. It also emphasizes the need for gender diversity and inclusivity within the community.

Aaron Francis introduces Fusion. A library that lets you write PHP and JavaScript together in a single Laravel view component. With Fusion, you get hot module reloading, file-based routing, and reactive state syncing between the backend and frontend. It even allows you to expose PHP functions directly to your JS code.

This article explores the pitfalls of relying too heavily on strings in your code. It outlines how unchecked string usage can lead to subtle bugs and maintenance challenges, urging developers to consider more robust practices for handling data. A concise and thought-provoking read for anyone focused on improving code quality.

Prism is a Laravel package for integrating LLMs, enabling text generation, multi-step conversations, and AI tool usage with a fluent API.

Explore the Single Responsibility Principle in software architecture, emphasizing focused components and separation of concerns for maintainability. Learn why each component should have a single reason to change.

Learn to enhance server performance by combining Laravel and Cloudflare's rate limiting, rejecting excessive requests at the edge to reduce server load and maintain API responsiveness.

A senior developer shares insights on software development philosophies, emphasizing avoiding ground-up rewrites, managing technical debt, automating best practices, and ensuring code is testable and robust against edge cases.