I’m Steven, a software engineer and technical leader based in the west coast of Scotland. I’m the CTO at Digitonic, where we develop technologies for the investor relations and igaming industries.
Laravel 13 ships first-party JSON:API resources that handle spec-compliant serialization, relationships, sparse fieldsets, and compound documents out of the box. This guide walks through building a complete API using the new JsonApiResource class — from first resource to production-hardened endpoints.
PHP 8.5 adds two long-overdue functions that eliminate the awkward workarounds for accessing the first or last element of an array.
The laravel/mcp package turns your Laravel app into an MCP server with a few artisan commands — no Node, no Python, just familiar middleware and routing.
