Best of Laravel — 2025

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   From 0 to 150K Visitors in 4 Hours: Scaling a Real-Time Engagement Platform

   Redberry successfully built and scaled a real-time engagement platform for Bank of Georgia in just three weeks using Laravel Cloud. The platform handled 150,000 visitors and 63,622 form submissions in four hours during Georgia's Independence Day, allowing emigrants to light up pixels on a digital flag displayed on a giant LED screen in Tbilisi. The technical stack included Laravel Cloud for elastic scaling, PostgreSQL for data persistence, Pusher for real-time broadcasting, React with Inertia.js for the frontend, and custom Canvas animations. The project demonstrates how modern Laravel tooling enables rapid development and deployment of high-traffic applications under tight deadlines.

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   Laravel Starter Kits: A New Beginning for Your Next Project

   Laravel has introduced new starter kits to replace Jetstream and Breeze. These kits, available in Livewire, React, and Vue versions, allow developers to start building applications without boilerplate code. Each kit includes a full authentication system, user profile management, dark mode support, and Tailwind CSS integration. The new kits promise easier customization and feature parity with Breeze, featuring a complete application ready from day one.

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   Is There an Official Laravel Certification?

   Laravel does not offer official certification and doesn't endorse third-party certifications. While certifications may help with contract work, the recommended path to mastering Laravel involves reading documentation, watching Laracasts tutorials, and building real applications. Learning through hands-on problem-solving and shipping actual code proves more effective than pursuing certificates.

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   How We Built Laravel Wrapped

   Laravel's team built Laravel Wrapped in under two weeks, creating personalized year-in-review experiences for 55,000+ users. The project aggregated data across Cloud, Forge, and Nightwatch using CSV exports and custom Artisan commands, generated AI-powered insights via batched OpenAI prompts, and built an interactive React/Inertia frontend with drag-and-drop sharing capabilities. Key technical challenges included syncing React components with server-rendered OG images, implementing real-time chat using Laravel MCP, and managing deployment speed through Laravel Cloud's preview environments and serverless Postgres. The team leveraged Laravel Boost extensively for AI-assisted development, enabling rapid iteration and same-day fixes during launch.

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   Introducing WebSockets for Laravel Cloud, Powered by Laravel Reverb

   Laravel Cloud now offers managed WebSocket clusters powered by Laravel Reverb, enabling developers to add real-time features to applications in seconds. The service provides automatic configuration, predictable pricing based on concurrent connections (up to 50% cheaper than competitors), and eliminates the complexity of managing WebSocket infrastructure. Clusters can split connections across multiple applications for cost efficiency, with all environment variables automatically populated upon setup.

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   Writing Clean Code with Laravel: The Artisan of the Day Is Jamie Peters.

   Jamie Peters shares his journey from writing unstructured vanilla PHP for over a decade to discovering Laravel in 2018, which transformed his approach to software development. The framework introduced him to concepts of clean code, architecture, and maintainability, ultimately leading to his current role at Jump24, a Laravel Diamond Partner agency in the UK, where he now treats development as a craft rather than just a job.

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   Taming JavaScript: The Artisan of the Day Is Evan You

   Evan You, creator of Vue.js and Vite, shared updates on the JavaScript ecosystem at Laracon US 2025. Vue has grown to over 2 million users and 250,000 GitHub stars, with no Vue 4 planned to maintain stability. Key developments include Vapor Mode compilation for 7KB bundle sizes, signals implementation for reactivity, and Vite overtaking Webpack in downloads. His company VoidZero is building a unified Rust-based JavaScript toolchain with Oxc, Rolldown, and Vite Plus, delivering 3x-16x faster production builds as drop-in replacements.

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   Building a Multi-Tenant Architecture Platform to Scale the Emmys

   Crowd Favorite built Orthicon, a multi-tenant Laravel platform for Emmy Awards competitions, serving multiple regional chapters from a single codebase. The architecture uses lightweight tenant identification via HTTP headers, Eloquent global scopes for data isolation, dynamic configuration through service providers, and tenant-aware caching and queues. This approach enabled NATAS to handle a 570% user spike while maintaining data security and allowing rapid deployment of new competitions without separate server instances.

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   AI Coding Tips for Laravel Developers

   Laravel Boost, now in public beta, provides AI agents with direct access to Laravel app context and documentation to improve code generation accuracy. The guide covers getting started with AI-assisted Laravel development through supported editors like Cursor, Claude Code, PhpStorm, and VS Code. Key recommendations include starting with small tasks like explaining code or writing unit tests, treating AI like a junior pair programmer by providing context and explicit instructions, then gradually progressing to larger tasks like scaffolding controllers and suggesting refactors.

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    Livewire 4 Is Here! The Artisan of the Day Is Caleb Porzio.

    Livewire 4 introduces single-file components by default, better project structure with dedicated directories, and lightning bolt file extensions. Key improvements include PHP 8.4 property hooks integration, slots and refs support, and smarter loading states. Performance enhancements feature non-blocking polling, the Blaze compiler for 20x faster Blade rendering, and Islands for independent component rendering. The update addresses the fragmentation of three different component creation methods by introducing a unified fourth approach that becomes the new standard.

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