Core Laravel development — test factories, tooling decisions, version breakdowns, and the opinionated choices that define professional Laravel work in 2026. Articles here share a common thread: making you a more deliberate Laravel developer, not just a faster one.
This category covers the framework itself — how it works, how it’s evolving, and how to use it well.
Expect honest assessments of new features and ecosystem shifts, not release note summaries dressed up as analysis.
Laracon EU 2026 landed in Amsterdam with roughly 1,000 attendees and a Taylor Otwell keynote that reframed what a Laravel application can look like in an AI-agent world. Laravel 13, a stable AI SDK, NativePHP Super Native, and an unforgettable live demo were the headlines. Here is the full breakdown, talk by talk.
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Laravel 13 ships a production-stable, first-party AI SDK that gives you a unified interface for text generation, embeddings, image synthesis, audio, and native vector search — without a single community package. Here’s every AI-specific change that matters, and what it means for the applications you’re building right now.
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Poorly designed test factories are one of the most common causes of brittle Laravel test suites — schemas change, fake data collides, and your CI pipeline becomes a liability. This guide shows you how to design factories that model real domain state, scale with your application, and keep your test suite fast and deterministic.
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AI coding agents write bad Laravel code not because they lack capability, but because they lack context — they cannot see your schema, your routes, or your installed package versions. Laravel Boost is the official MCP server from the Laravel team that closes that gap, giving agents live, structured access to your running application.
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