Laracasts Series

Blaze Deep-Dive

Blade components are slow. Really slow. At scale, they quietly become the biggest bottleneck in your Laravel application. We discovered this while trying to make Flux as fast as possible, and the result is Blaze: a package that fundamentally rethinks how Blade components are compiled and rendered. With multiple levels of optimization, Blaze can shave hundreds of milliseconds off a page load, making Blade rendering up to 25x faster in some cases.In this series, we'll install it, benchmark it, build a toy version from scratch so you truly understand how it works, and then master every directive and edge case so you can squeeze maximum performance out of your own apps.

Everything New in Livewire 4

With Caleb Porzio

Livewire 4 is a major release, and it's packed with features you're going to love. View-based components keep your PHP and Blade together in one file. Islands let you create isolated, independently-updating regions without the overhead of nested components. New directives like wire:sort tackle big things with minimal code. And a powerful JavaScript interceptor system gives you fine-grained control over every request.Whether you're upgrading an existing app or starting fresh, this series will walk you through everything new, from the fundamentals to the advanced stuff. Let's dig in.

Livewire Uncovered

With Caleb Porzio

Livewire can often feel like magic. Somehow, you're able to write interactive web applications using only PHP? How? Well, in this series, we're going to uncover the magic together by building a simplified version of Livewire from scratch.Aside from being plain entertaining, this exercise will arm you with deep Livewire knowledge that will help you build and debug your apps in your daily life. Let's dive in!

Building AlpineJS

With Caleb Porzio

Ever wonder how a front-end framework works under the hood? In this series, I (the creator of AlpineJS) will walk you through what it takes to actually build one from scratch. By the end of the series, you will learn what’s involved in creating a modern, reactive, front-end framework by actually building one yourself. It’s easier than you might think!

JavaScript Techniques For Server-Side Applications

With Caleb Porzio

Many Laravel apps don’t warrant the complexity of a full front-end framework like Vue or React. In this series, we’ll walk through a handful of simple ways to add dynamic functionality to your apps. By combining various strategies, you can keep your simple Laravel stack, but still build interfaces that feel fast, fresh, and dynamic.