Colin Hall

Hey everyone, @gros.co and I have an extra ticket for LaraconUS next month. Comes with hangouts and merch. If you want to be in next week's draw to win it (along with $500 towards your travel) goto laravel.recipes and register. The entry form is on your home page

It's less than a week until our next meet up, where @jessarcher.bsky.social fields your questions on Nightwatch! Drop 'em below 👇👇

I think I may have just cried .....

Simple rules for where to put business logic | Mastering Laravel My three-question checklist

Yesterday I shared the various places you can put your business logic in a Laravel app. Once you know your options, a lightweight rule set keeps architectural decisions consistent. Here’s the checklist I rely on. masteringlaravel.io/daily/2025-0...

Belief:
@nativephp.com is still just an experiment

Reality:
• Both desktop and mobile are already at v1 🥇

• Thousands of devs and companies are building production apps with both 🧱

• We're working hard to bring loads of new features as fast as possible 💪🏼

In Depth: A Deep Dive into Laravel's New Starter Kits! (pt 1) [In Depth #35] Let's take a dive into the security of Laravel's new Starter Kits to see how they handle authentication, what security features they include, and what areas could be improved! 🤓

Let's take a dive into the security of Laravel's new Starter Kits to see how they handle authentication, what security features they include, and what areas could be improved! 🤓
(This is part 1, I only got through the first kit...)

securinglaravel.com/in-depth-a-d... #Laravel

Where should you put your business logic? | Mastering Laravel Considering the various options

Feeling lost about where to put your business logic? Services, jobs, events, actions? Does it matter? Let's chart the territory so your next architectural choice feels less random. masteringlaravel.io/daily/2025-0...

Avoid overlapping date ranges with a familiar API | Mastering Laravel Feels like a built-in Laravel feature

Laravel has so many validation rules, but occasionally you still need to write a custom rule. Here's an example from one our recent projects, designed to feel like a familiar built-in feature. masteringlaravel.io/daily/2025-0...

Expose Redis locally for easier debugging | Mastering Laravel No harm in opening the port during development

Just because you won't need something every day, doesn't mean it's not worth setting up. On a recent PR, Aaron pushed back on my decision to not expose the Redis port for local development. masteringlaravel.io/daily/2025-0...

Congrats!

It's comments like these that make all the work I put into my big articles like securinglaravel.com/in-depth-a-d... so worth it! 🥰

Here’s what’s new in Laravel 12.15.0!

First, you can now provide a default value when retrieving an enum from request data.

Will be watching those tonight. So far the last of the 3 episodes released have been the best ones, so 3 and 6 so far. So not surprised 9 is the banger.

NativePHP Build native applications, with the tools you already know.

🔥 It's here: NativePHP for Mobile has officially launched

Build native Android & iOS apps with Laravel, a ton of coffee and a bit of magic

📱 Android support just landed!
📚 Docs are live
🚀 Hundreds of devs are already building incredible apps with it!

⚡️ Start shipping today!
nativephp.com/mobile

YouTube video by Mastering Laravel A better way to handle Eloquent models with mocks in your tests

Cool trick by @jclermont.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6In...

Guess what I am going to be doing tonight ....

index.php
index.2.php
index.3.php
index.beta.php
index.next.php
index.chris.php
index.tim.php
index.staff.php
__index.php
oldindex.php
oldindex2.php
archive/index.php
archive2/index.php
backup-2001-02-03/index.php
backup-2001-02-03-2/index.php
deleteme.php
deleteme2.php
dontdeleteyet.php

Trip down memory lane but you missed

index.final.php
index.final2.php
index.final3.php
index.final4.php
index.final5.php
index.hastobethefinaloneplease.php

NativePHP for Mobile v1 — Launching May 2 - Laravel News Build native iOS & Android apps using just Laravel. NativePHP for Mobile v1 release announcement— the same Laravel you've always used, now supercharged!

NativePHP for Mobile v1 — Launching May 2 laravel-news.com/nativephp-mo...

YouTube video by NativePHP NativePHP v1 – with Android support – coming May 2

Turn one Laravel app – into 2 mobile apps

🎉 With NativePHP for mobile

📱 iOS available today

🤖 Android support coming May 2

🧵

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwqD...

Have used Wayfinder once and went for the routes

Always

I've been building a little personal finance @laravel.com app to replace a complex finance spreadsheet that I have.

I've also been exploring @nativephp.bsky.social recently, so now I am building the little personal finance app desktop version.

Mobile app next?

A few years ago we were strong advocates of Vue with Laravel, when Livewire arrived we exclusively used Livewire

We have just built 2 test apps in inertia with Vue and react, not to replace Livewire, but to have other tools in the locker

Its good to know which tools work best for your projects

laravel new bluesky

78: The Haters Were Right Ian and Aaron discuss upcoming travel to Miami & Vegas, Aaron's new...

🎙️ Just published a new episode of Mostly Technical: 78: The Haters Were Right. Have a listen: