In-person Laracon's are back! 

This year, in-person Laracon is back with at least three events that have been announced: 

• Laracon EU - Lisbon EU, January 26-27
• Laracon IN - Ahmedabad India February 25-26
• Laracon US - Nashville TN, July 19-20

Tickets are on sale for Europe and India, and the Laracon US will announce ticket sales in the next month or so. Book your calendars and meet other Laravel developers! 

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Singlestore for Laravel is a video course with code examples designed to help you switch from your standard Laravel database driver to a distributed database.

Laravel 9.46 Released

The Laravel team released 9.46 with two JsonResource methods to conditionally include resource properties, updates to the decimal validation rule, and more

Using OpenAI in Laravel

AI is it a buzzword, or is it something we should be thinking about? With the release of the OpenAI package, we can dive into AI-powered Laravel applications

Dark Mode for Laravel Breeze 

Laravel Breeze now has a dark mode, profile view, and types. 

Spin up your development background processes with ease

Porter is a command line tool that makes it easy to run background services with only a few configuration lines.

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Cloudflare's Turnstile Captcha for Laravel

The turnstile-laravel package integrates Turnstile's Captcha verification API with Laravel applications.

Community Links

Elasticsearch API key & PHP
adithya.dev

Move Model Scopes To Traits In Laravel
medium.com

https://baspa.dev/blog/speed-up-your-laravel-website-using-static-cache
baspa.dev

Laravel Ecommerce Tutorial: Part 1, Introduction
flixtechs.co.zw

Cloudflare R2 storage with Laravel in 5 minutes
medium.com

How to improve initial page load time by deferring rendering Livewire components
freek.dev

Dynamic Content in Filament Admin
filamentphp.com

Alpine.js - HTML : Redirect to the value of a select field
wilo-ahadi.com

10 Tips For Using Laravel API Resources
uselaradoc.com

Generate QR Code as a Filament Field and OnBoard Users Scanning it
filamentphp.com

Laravel favicons generator
github.com

Porter - Background processes management
github.com

Sportmonks Football Api
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Explore and polish your Laravel Emails with Mailbook
smknstd.medium.com

New Laravel Workflow Feature: Side Effects
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Filament Bookmarks Menu Plugin
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Continarized HTML to PDF API based on laravel and dockerzed.
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Laravel Blade Directives
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