Best of Laravel — October 2025

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    Avatar of hnHacker News·26w

    From Millions to Billions

    Geocodio migrated their request logging system from MariaDB with deprecated TokuDB to ClickHouse Cloud after hitting performance issues at billions of monthly requests. The solution involved introducing Kafka for event streaming and Vector for batch processing, moving from individual row inserts to batched inserts of 30k-50k records. The migration strategy used feature flags to run both systems in parallel, enabling zero-downtime validation before fully switching over.

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    Avatar of laraveldevLaravel Dev·27w

    Laravel Best Practices Every Developer Should Follow

    Seven essential practices for maintaining clean Laravel codebases: keeping controllers lightweight by moving logic to service classes, using Form Request classes for validation, following naming conventions, preventing N+1 queries with eager loading, storing configuration in environment files, maintaining organized migrations and seeders, and writing basic tests using Laravel's built-in tools.

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    Avatar of lnLaravel News·26w

    PHP 8.5 Introduces a New URI Extension

    PHP 8.5 adds a built-in URI extension that provides standards-compliant parsing for both RFC 3986 and WHATWG URL standards. The extension includes Uri and Url classes with methods for parsing, normalizing, and manipulating URLs, with proper error handling through exceptions or referenced error arrays. Laravel applications can already use similar functionality through Laravel's URI class (available since 11.35), which wraps the league/uri package implementing RFC 3986.

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    Avatar of lnLaravel News·28w

    Craft CMS is moving to Laravel

    Craft CMS announced at their Dot All conference that version 6 will be built on Laravel instead of Yii 2. The transition includes a Yii 2 adapter package to minimize breaking changes for existing plugins and modules. Craft 6 will introduce content releases, scheduled drafts, content importing, approval workflows, edit page commenting, element activity logs, and a redesigned UI with dark mode. Beta release is planned for Q3 2026, with general availability in Q4 2026.

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    Avatar of laraveldailyLaravel Daily·24w

    Where Are All NEW Laravel/PHP Devs? (and what can we do)

    Analysis of declining interest in PHP and Laravel among new developers, based on community feedback from Twitter and LinkedIn. Key factors include fewer high-paying job opportunities compared to Python and JavaScript, negative brand perception and 'dead language' stereotypes, limited presence in educational institutions and bootcamps, AI code generators defaulting to JavaScript frameworks, steeper learning curve for beginners, and paid ecosystem components. Proposes solutions including creating content for non-PHP audiences, showcasing business success stories, improving onboarding experience, and engaging with broader developer communities beyond the existing PHP bubble.

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    My wishlist for PHP in 2026

    A PHP developer outlines desired language features for 2026, prioritizing PHP Editions (opt-in breaking changes per namespace inspired by Rust), interface default methods for more flexible code organization, generics for type-safe collections, and structs for simpler data representation. The author acknowledges that backwards compatibility constraints slow feature adoption and create compromises, suggesting editions could enable experimental features and gradual migration. Previously desired features like scalar objects and unified function signatures are deemed unlikely or abandoned.

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    Avatar of laraveldevLaravel Dev·28w

    Quick Wins to Speed Up Your Laravel App

    Five practical optimization techniques for Laravel applications: implementing configuration and route caching, fixing N+1 database queries with eager loading and proper indexing, offloading heavy tasks to queues, enabling OPcache for PHP compilation, and removing unused dependencies. These straightforward improvements can significantly boost application performance without complex refactoring.

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    Avatar of lnLaravel News·27w

    Http Client Batch Method in Laravel 12.32

    Laravel 12.32.0 introduces HTTP batch requests with lifecycle callbacks for concurrent request handling, an afterRollback database callback for transaction rollback handling, batch job failure callbacks for granular error management, and response-based rate limiting to control throttling based on HTTP responses rather than just requests. Additional improvements include SQS FIFO queue support and various bug fixes.

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    Avatar of lnLaravel News·25w

    Laravel Nuxt UI Starter Kit

    A production-ready starter kit combining Laravel backend with Vue 3, Inertia.js v2, Nuxt UI components, and Tailwind CSS v4. Features zero configuration setup, complete authentication system, TypeScript support, and pre-configured developer tools including testing and linting. Can be installed via Laravel installer or Composer with all modern architecture patterns and best practices built-in.

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    Avatar of lnLaravel News·24w

    Optimizing Queries with Memoization

    Duplicate cache calls waste time even when cached. Laravel's Cache::memo() stores results in memory during a single request, eliminating redundant cache reads. Using Laravel Telescope to identify duplicate cache hits, you can implement memoization to reduce three 8ms cache calls down to one, with minimal code changes through a MemoizedCacheService wrapper.

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    Avatar of phpdevPHP Dev·24w

    Hetzner Laravel now has full documentation available!

    Hetzner Laravel, a tool for managing Hetzner servers with Laravel, now features comprehensive documentation to help developers get started quickly. The documentation is open-source and available for community contributions, alongside the main GitHub repository.

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    Avatar of laraveldevLaravel Dev·26w

    Laravel Seeder & Migration Best Practices

    Eight practical guidelines for managing Laravel database migrations and seeders effectively. Covers reversible migrations, avoiding edits to deployed migrations, preventing duplicate seeded data using methods like updateOrCreate, organizing seeders into focused classes, separating development and production seed data with environment checks, leveraging factories for test data, and using migrate:fresh --seed for clean rebuilds. Emphasizes idempotent seeders and maintaining clean database history for stable, reproducible environments.

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    Avatar of lnLaravel News·26w

    Rector Rules for Laravel

    Rector for Laravel is a PHP tool extension that automates code upgrades and refactoring for Laravel applications. It offers automatic version-based rule application, step-by-step upgrade paths between Laravel versions, and specific rulesets for improving code quality. Features include replacing conditional statements with helper functions (abort_if, throw_if), adding type hints for better type safety, and numerous configurable rules for Laravel-specific optimizations.

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    Avatar of lnLaravel News·26w

    Detect Packages & Approaches in use within a project with Laravel Roster

    Laravel Roster is a package from the Laravel core team that scans projects to detect which Laravel ecosystem packages are installed and their versions. It provides a simple API to query package information, filter by production or development dependencies, and check for specific packages and versions. The tool is primarily used internally by the Laravel team and comes bundled with Laravel Boost.

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