Upgrading From Laravel 12 to Laravel 13: The Practical Guide
The Laravel 13 upgrade is mostly painless — but three config areas will silently change how your app behaves if you skip them. Here's what actually changed and what's worth adopting.
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The Complete Guide to the Laravel AI SDK in Laravel 13
Laravel 13 ships a first-party AI SDK that replaces the patchwork of vendor SDKs and community packages. Here's how to use every capability — agents, streaming, structured output, tools, embeddings and RAG — in one working project.
Stop Using parse_url(): PHP 8.5's URI Extension Explained
PHP 8.5 ships a built-in URI extension that replaces parse_url() with immutable, type-safe objects. No third-party package needed.
Getting Started With Laravel Prism: Add AI to Any Laravel App in Minutes
Prism gives you a provider-agnostic fluent interface for OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, and more inside any Laravel app. Here's how to go from zero to your first AI response.
Real-Time Notifications with Laravel Reverb and Echo
Reverb is Laravel's free, first-party WebSocket server. Here's how to go from zero to live browser notifications — private channels, Echo, and an Alpine.js toast — without touching Pusher.
Laravel Vapor vs Laravel Forge in 2026: Which Deployment Platform Should You Choose?
Both are first-party Laravel deployment tools. They solve completely different problems. Here's the decision framework I use.