Florian Beer

It's been a little over a year since launch, and a lot has changed in Laravel Cloud. Join us as we demo the latest features next week, including the new scale to zero that wakes your stack in under 500 ms. Live Q&A at the end. Grab your spot now → laravel.com/cloud/events...

New in v1.6.0 of the official Laravel VS Code Extension: Integration with VS Code's built-in test runner! Tests now appear in the test explorer sidebar and you can run them right from the command palette. Works with both Pest and PHPUnit 👍 Shout out to Titas Gailius, knocked it outta the park 👏

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Last month we shipped: ◆ Livewire 4 support in Starter Kits, Boost 2.0, JSON:API resource, & improved Docker support in VS Code. ◆ Laravel Valkey & expanded API access in Cloud. ◆ Hetzner S3 for backups in Forge. ◆ Real time exception detection in Nightwatch.

I've been using OpenClaw for a while now and honestly — I wouldn't want to work without it anymore. So I'm really excited we built a dedicated VPS for it on @laravel.com Forge. A secure home for your AI assistant, set up in minutes 👇 youtu.be/_u7jYzIM8Zc

Laravel Prompts v0.3.11 introduces a new `number` prompt: ✅ Automatically validates that the value is numeric ⌨️ Use the up/down arrows to increase/decrease value 🗜️ Clamps the value at the min/max 🔄 Auto-casts to int if there is a value 📋 Falls through to additional validation

🌡️ New ClawdHub skill: Netatmo Control your thermostat & weather stations from CLI: • Set temp, change modes • CO₂, humidity, noise, pressure • History with ASCII sparklines ▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█ clawdhub install netatmo clawdhub.com/skills/netatmo

🥒 Just published my first skill to Clawdhub! gurkerl - Austrian grocery shopping via MCP 47 tools to search products, manage cart, browse recipes, track orders... all through natural language. Built it in one session with Clawdbot clawdhub.com/skills/gurkerl

Protip: if you're installing @clawdbot on a Linux VM, don't be clever and name the machine clawd.bot It will set that as a name for 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts and you won't be able to run the installer because it will resolve to localhost 🤦‍♂️

Why PHP in 2026? TypeScript-level types, no build steps, immutability by default via readonly, enums, and more. whyphp.dev

The new version of Laravel Wayfinder is available in public beta! This version transforms much more into TypeScript, straight from your PHP: 📍 Routes ⌨️ Form Requests 🗃️ Eloquent Models 🔢 PHP Enums 📃 Inertia Page Props 🌎 Inertia Shared Data 📡 Broadcast Channels 📣 Broadcast Events ⚙️ Vite Env Variables

Join Laravel's SRE team! 🚀 I'm looking for experienced Engineers who want to work on infrastructure that powers Laravel apps at global scale. Apply: wrkbl.ink/jbFJn5

14M requests. 50,000 sites. 1 engineer. @ghost.org chose Laravel Cloud to run their new site directory, Ghost Explore, with zero infra management. See how Ghost's founder @johnonolan.bsky.social runs a production app without a big ops team: laravel.com/blog/14m-req...

Our most requested Laravel Cloud feature is here: WebSockets powered by Laravel Reverb. Add real-time features to your application with the click of a button, no need to spin up a separate server or manage a 3rd-party login. Learn more and get started: laravel.com/blog/introdu...

With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.

Our Laravel starter kits now include two-factor authentication to boost your app's security. 🔐 Check out our latest video for a quick demo and see how easy it is to implement! ✨ youtu.be/4osPfTw-FB0

Congratulations Laravel on launching Laravel VPS! 🍾 Developers globally use Laravel to power over 1M websites, & we're proud to partner with them to empower that community to continue to build & scale web apps in a simple way. ✨ https://do.co/4nBSs5k

This is the biggest update to server management since 2014. ◆ Instant Laravel VPS servers ◆ Zero downtime deployments ◆ Team terminal sessions ◆ Free on-forge domains ◆ Health checks, Heartbeats, & real-time metrics

Inertia 2.2 is here and it ships with a new <InfiniteScroll> component! If you've ever built infinite scrolling by hand, you know what a timesaver this is. We worked hard sweating the details to make this super smooth and easy to implement Let's take a look! 👇

New header image btw.

💎 Custom Validation Rules Dive into the latest episode of Laravel Gems and learn how to enhance your Laravel applications with powerful input validation. ✌️ youtu.be/TXYCtTfouPg

📺 Here is What's New in Laravel 12.29 ➡️ JSON option for Schedule List ➡️ Support #[UseResource(...)] ➡️ Session Cache ➡️ New local error page Thank you Danny Foster, Luca Patera & João Pedro Lopes 🙏 youtu.be/Ku51nr3yhHs

Proud to announce that we've launched our first APAC datacentre for Nightwatch - and it just happens to be the beautiful city I call home 🙃 Sydney region - live now nightwatch.laravel.com

It's our 100th episode! @ianlandsman.com & @aaronfrancis.com talk about PlanetScale, launching Aaron's new YouTube channels, traction tables that will change your life, and so much more.

🔒 With everything going on with NPM, we're moving all over our Laravel packages over to Trusted Publishing Now you'll know where the latest release came from and you can verify that it was us.

This little afternoon project is still running and analyzed already over one billion Bsky posts 😮 Thank you Laravel Cloud 🫡 laraskyspy-main-qzcdtd.laravel.cloud

🚨 Warning to #PHP package maintainers: We did not email you to change your passwords & 2FA. Emails asking you to update your credentials are a phishing attempt. We had the phishing site & domain taken down. If you got the email and entered your credentials, please contact us. #phpc

I had a great time at API Platform Conference. It was an honor to speak there and to connect with so many inspiring people.

The Laravel Bootcamp is back! Alongside it is a new PHP Fundamentals mini-course. Both are free and perfect for anyone brand new to PHP or Laravel. laravel.com/learn

Arrived in Lille for @api-platform.com Conf 2025 ✌️ Here's a subscribable calendar for the schedule api-platform-conf-2025-schedule.laravel.cloud

We crossed 1 million deployments on Laravel Cloud 🔥 blog.laravel.com/1m-deploys-o...

Euer neues Album "Innern" ist der Wahnsinn 🤯 Gratulation @derwegeinerfreiheit.de! Freue mich schon euch am 24.9. in Wien zu sehen

Laravel Cloud Achieves SOC 2 Type 2 Certification, Nightwatch and Forge Next blog.laravel.com/laravel-clou...

You can now override Laravel Boost guidelines with your own 🙌 Useful if you only use a package in one place and don't need those guidelines generally, or if you have your own guidelines for it 💪 Take a look - github.com/laravel/boos...

Laravel Boost now has access to the Nova 4 and 5 docs 🙌 I've been building with Nova a lot recently so I'm particularly pleased about this 😁 AI guidelines coming for Nova soon, watch this space! 🫶

❕ There's a new useful and short article on the Laravel blog, all about how to get started with AI assisted development in a sensible way 📗 Share it with people who haven't got started just yet 🙌 blog.laravel.com/ai-coding-ti...

The new Laravel Forge will be a game changer: ⚡ Laravel VPS in seconds 🚀 Zero-downtime deployments 🌍 on-forge.com domains, no DNS hassle 📊 Healthchecks & heartbeats 💻 Integrated terminal & command palette ✨ All-new redesigned UI 👉 forge.laravel.com/waitlist

We're now SOC 2 Type 2 compliant 🎉 trust.laravel.com?product=cloud

Running Laravel in a container? Want to use Nightwatch? Good news - it just got easier! Official Laravel Nightwatch agent image now live at: hub.docker.com/r/laravelphp... Detailed docs available at: nightwatch.laravel.com/docs/guides/... 🦹 🚢 🚀🚀🚀

Pest v4 is here — now with browser testing! Browser tests that feel like unit tests: Laravel-ready, Playwright-powered, parallel-fast, with smoke & visual regression built in. Discover Pest v4 — and our new website: pestphp.com?ref=v4

🚦 Forge now has its own dedicated status page: status.on-forge.com

Laravel Cloud updates. ◆ Preview environments for every pull request ◆ Queue clusters w/ intelligent process auto-scaling ◆ More MySQL sizes & Pro compute for large workloads ◆ Increased bandwidth allowances ◆ WAF for faster delivery & stronger security blog.laravel.com/laravel-clou...

This week we shipped many of the updates we demoed at Laracon. ⚡ Boost. Level up your AI powered development with Laravel-specific guidance and context. ☁️ Cloud. Preview environments, queue clusters, and simpler pricing. 🏃 Inertia <Form> component. More details 👇

My new talk is up! 5 practical things developers can do to build trust with their non-technical bosses. In the high trust environment you have less micromanagement and conflict, and more freedom and harmony. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zki4...

Laravel VPS is a new server provider in Forge, that's easy to get started with and provides instantly available servers. From zero to deployed in a minute.

Excited about the next generation of Laravel Forge? So are we! Sign up for the Early Access list at vps.laravel.com

On this week's show, @ianlandsman.com & @aaronfrancis.com recap the most important event that happened during Laracon: The Hot Takes Game during the Mostly Technical Party. And frankly? Ian's got a lot of problems with a lot of people.

Launched during Laracon: community.laravel.com Let's meet up at the next event in Vienna!