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Filament v5 Performance: Making a 100,000-Row Panel Feel Instant
Filament is wonderful at 500 rows and miserable at 500,000. Almost none of that is Filament's fault - here is the ordered method for finding which of the eight usual causes is actually yours.
Sort Users by Their Last Order Without an N+1: Eloquent Subquery Selects
An admin table needs a sortable Last ordered column. Eager loading fixes the query count but not the memory, and it cannot sort at all. The subquery select does both in four lines.
Add Soft Deletes to a Filament v5 Resource: Trashed Filter, Restore and Force Delete
The scaffold flag only helps on a brand new resource. Here's the retrofit path for soft deletes on an existing Filament v5 resource — including the query override that fixes the 404 on a trashed record.
Switch Laravel to Immutable Dates with CarbonImmutable
Carbon extends DateTime, so every modifier rewrites the object you called it on. Here is how to move a Laravel app onto CarbonImmutable end to end.
Debug Livewire and Eloquent Faster with Spatie Ray
Stop halting requests with dd() and scribbling over pages with dump(). Spatie Ray sends Laravel debug output to a desktop app so you can watch queries, events and Livewire state live.
Add Status Tabs with Counts to a Filament v5 List Page
Filament tables can be filtered, but the filter form hides behind a button. For a fixed set of states like order status, tabs put always-visible, counted query scopes right above the table.
Auto-Delete Stale Records with Laravel's Prunable Trait
Some tables only ever grow. Here's how Laravel's Prunable trait deletes stale rows on a schedule — safely, in chunks, with a hook for cleaning up related files.
Build Custom Table Filters in Filament v4
Past SelectFilter and TernaryFilter: build a custom Filament v4 filter from a form schema and a query() callback, add a date range, and wire up indicators.
Filament v4 Repeater & Builder: Edit Nested, Repeatable Form Data
Repeatable rows and block-based content in Filament v4 — store them in a JSON column or a HasMany relationship, read parent and sibling fields with $get, and stop nested rows saving empty.
Catch N+1 Queries Early with Eloquent Strict Mode
Turn N+1 queries into loud exceptions in development instead of silent latency in production. Here's what Eloquent strict mode does and exactly where to switch it on.
Filament v4 Nested Resources: Editing Child Models in Parent Context Without RelationManagers
How to scaffold a Filament v4 nested resource that edits child models inside the parent's URL: with scoped queries, pre-filled foreign keys, and policies that hide forbidden actions.
Filament v4 Many-to-Many Relation Managers: Pivot Fields, Attach, and Detach
How to surface pivot data in a Filament v4 relation manager: withPivot, AttachAction with form fields, scoped record selects, and a safe detach story.
Replacing String Constants with PHP Backed Enums in Laravel Models
String constants like STATUS_PENDING are typo-prone, unautocompleted, and impossible to enumerate exhaustively. PHP backed enums fix all of that: and Laravel has native support throughout.
PHP Readonly Classes as Value Objects in Laravel
Primitive obsession is one of those code smells that's easy to ignore: until you're debugging which integer is pounds and which is pence. PHP readonly classes fix that cleanly.
PHP 8.4 Property Hooks in Laravel Models
PHP 8.4 property hooks are a tidy language-level alternative to getters and setters: but before you reach for them in your Eloquent models, there's a catch worth understanding.