With regards to ordering the navigation items: I'm developing software for almost 40 years, and I learned one important thing when you want to order anything:

Never order with increments of 1... like 1, 2, 3 etc.

Take steps of at least 10, so 10, 20, 30 etc.

Because there always is a customer who thinks a new item should be added between 1 and 2... So you'll have to change the index of each item.

When you order in higher increments, you can work with 'values' in between.

So the 'item in between' would become 15... if the base index would have increments of 10, 150 when increments of 100 etc.

Hello Jeremy, Just some quick feedback. I gotta say, I love this "vanilla" way of simply writing code to pass on ideas and concepts. Without interference from auto completion tools while listening to and watching you in action, this makes so much easier to assimilate it all.

While you probably should've extracted functionalities to services and used Livewire, It is just as nice to watch it being built like that 😄 thanks so much for this great series!

Thanks for another fantastic series!

Repeater\TableColumn::make('Title')->markAsRequired() instead of adding * manually

@sebkay No kidding haha. Normally, I'd work on something else...but when recording, you just have to wait it out.

I’m looking forward to the rest of this series just to see what you do while Claude is working 😂

** Warning **

Do not just use ->markdown() on its own this is prome to XSS (Cross-Site-Scripting) if you was to put <img src="#" onmouseover="alert('hacked');" /> in your idea description or worse a user was, when they hover over the image, an alert will show. Instead use:

    `return Attribute::get(
        fn ($value, $attributes) => new HtmlString(str($attributes['description'])->markdown([
            'html_input' => 'escape',
            'allow_unsafe_links' => false,
            'max_nesting_level' => 5,
        ])));`

For verifying that the request status exists in the IdeaStatus enum, PHP has a nice built in method that Claude Code showed me:

$status = IdeaStatus::tryFrom($request->status ?? '');

It will return the value if it exists or null otherwise.

As much as I like to practice array mapping and manipulation, countBy() helps to clean the logic up a bit:

// Get counts in the controller
'counts' => $request->user()->ideas()->get()->countBy('status');

// Get counts in view, including those with no records
{{ $counts[$ideaStatus->value] ?? 0 }}

One important thing when creating routes like that, is the order.

Route::get('/ideas/create', [IdeaController::class, 'index']);

Must be defined before

Route::get('/ideas/{idea}', [IdeaController::class, 'show']);

Or you will scratch your head as to why you get a 404 when trying to navigate to the create Idea route.

Love the way you structure your lessons. Speedrun some bits, explain each step of the way. Really good stuff!

Oh and I am 100% guilty of doing the "it didn't work, try again" and adding layers of slop to my vibes 🤣

Taking good notes!

First <3

@Jeffrey Way can you release a series on how to deploy a Laravel app with Docker in 2026 (maybe FrankenPHP)?

Amazing feature! Thanks Caleb ❤️