We chat with Aaron Francis about his journey in the tech community, focusing on his recent projects, including the Laravel package Solo, his experiences with screencasting, and his various courses.

The Log Alarm package for Laravel gives you real-time monitoring and error detection for your applications. It helps you stay on top of your logs by providing monitoring, error detection, and notifications to Slack and email.

Discover Laravel's AsArrayObject and AsCollection casts for improved JSON attribute handling. Learn to manipulate nested data structures efficiently while leveraging Laravel's powerful collection methods.

Token Forge is a Laravel package that adds robust, customizable API token management to your Laravel Breeze applications, inspired by Laravel Jetstream’s token implementation.

PublicIP is a PHP library that gets a server's public IP address reliably and quickly. You can use this package programmatically as part of an application or from the command line with the provided bin.

Meet Laravel's Context facade for enhanced application debugging. Learn to add persistent metadata to your request lifecycle, creating more informative logs and easier-to-debug applications.

The One-time Password Manager (OTP) package for Laravel provides a comprehensive set of methods to generate, send, verify, and manage OTPs.

Learn how Laravel's takeWhile method enables precise sequential data filtering. Perfect for processing status updates, validating sequences, and analyzing trends in your collection data.

The Quickpay package for Laravel helps you quickly utilize the Quickpay API client using a fluent object and service Facade. Quickpay allows you to accept payments securely and reliably.

Master Laravel's replaceRecursive method for elegant nested array updates. Learn to merge complex configurations and user preferences while preserving default values in your data structures.

Master Laravel's whereInstanceOf method for efficient collection filtering by object type. Perfect for handling polymorphic relationships and processing mixed object collections in your applications.

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Discover how Laravel's toJson() method simplifies model-to-JSON conversion. Learn to customize your API responses while leveraging both explicit conversion and Laravel's automatic serialization features.

Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.

I've hand-picked some of the biggest stories at Laravel News in 2024. This year was massive, with our new Laravel Creator Spotlight series and huge announcements from Laravel like Laravel Cloud, Inertia.js 2.0, and more!

Learn how Laravel's attributesToArray method provides access to raw model data, perfect for audit logging, caching, and scenarios where you need database attributes without relationships or computed properties.

The Teams Notification package for Laravel lets you send notifications to Microsoft Teams and send custom logs using the package's logging channel.

Explore Laravel's factory recycle method for efficient test data creation. Learn to optimize your factories by reusing model instances across multiple relationships, perfect for testing complex data structures.

The Laravel Microsoft Graph package provides seamless integration with Microsoft Graph API, making it easier for developers to interact with some of Microsoft's cloud services.

The Laravel community offers a growing number of packages that use AI models like OpenAI's GPT and Anthropic's Claude to simplify and enhance application localization, making it faster and more efficient to create multilingual applications.