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You're likely using an AI agent every day at this point, but do you truly understand how it works under the hood? What separates an agent from a general chat? What's a tool? How do we provide the loop for executing these tools? In this series, we'll demystify some of these concepts by building a basic agent that is capable of interacting with your file system and triggering tools.

Frontend Mentor Challenge with Laravel

In this series, we take a Frontend Mentor challenge and build it using Laravel and Tailwind CSS. Rather than chasing pixel-perfect replication, the focus is on pragmatic Laravel and backend logic. Along the way, we explore carts, session state, semantic markup, and UI polish.

The Batteries-Included AI Toolkit

The Laravel AI SDK is a first-party toolkit for adding AI features to your applications. Using a helpdesk app as our playground, you’ll learn structured output, chat with memory, streaming, tool use, retrieval, and everything else you need to build AI features that are reliable, testable, and ready for production. This is an incredibly powerful toolkit, and I can't wait to show you what you can build. Let's get going!

Welcome to the latest iteration of the longest running Laravel introductory video series in the world. Like clockwork, we refresh this series every two years. This latest 2026 iteration covers Laravel 12 and beyond. You'll learn not only the basic fundamentals of Laravel, but also how to leverage more advanced features like authentication, authorization, queues, testing, and more. We'll even review the full deployment process from scratch.

PHP For Beginners

We all start somewhere. For programming, this series is that first step. I've designed it specifically for newcomers to, not just PHP, but programming in general. Here, you'll learn the fundamentals of PHP - all the way down to defining basic variables and arrays.Think of this series as a key stepping stone for your programming journey.

Leveraging AI for Laravel Development

The web development world forever changed in December, 2025. This was the month when we realized just how powerful and useful LLMs had truly become. And there's no turning back. It's time to get on board! This train isn't stopping. Join me, as I get you up to speed in record time. Learn about Jetbrains AI, agents, prompting, vibe coding, developer-driven AI, Ralph Wiggum, and a wealth of tips and techniques to drastically speed up your workflow. Let's go!

Learn Laravel Forge

With Matt Stauffer

In this series, long-time Laravel Forge advocate Matt Stauffer will teach you how to become a Forge power user. Of course, you'll learn how to provision servers in seconds, but you'll also learn about zero-downtime deployments, processes, queues, securing sites with SSL, database backups, networks, and more!Each episode is bite-sized, so feel free to jump around to the topic that interests you most. Let's go!

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.

Running Clock

Welcome to "Running Clock," my new interview series where I fire off questions to top developers about their favorite tools, frameworks, and coding obsessions. The catch? We only have five minutes to get through all of my questions...and the clock is ticking!

Jeffrey's Larabits

Here, you'll find Jeffrey Way's personal collection of Larabits. If you're unfamiliar, Larabits are short, isolated lessons that focus on a single concept or technique. While a typical series may take hours to work your way through, Larabits are instead for when you have five or ten minutes to pick up a small bit of knowledge.Please keep in mind that each of these lessons is self-contained and may be viewed in any order. Happy learning!

Livewire 3 From Scratch

Building modern, reactive web apps is difficult and time consuming - if you use traditional tools, that is. But with Livewire, you can easily build modern, responsive applications in a fraction of the time. Join Jeremy as he walks you through all of the concepts and features you need to know to start using Livewire 3 in your Laravel apps today.

API and Auth

Laravel API Master Class

In this workshop series, you'll learn how to design, version, build, and protect a web API using Laravel. We'll begin from scratch with a basic Laravel project, and construct a fully-featured API one lesson at a time.

Mastering Permissions in Laravel

User authorization is one of the most complex systems to build in your application, but also one of the most essential. From setting up role-based access and custom policies to exploring advanced permissions - and group-based authorization - you’ll gain the skills needed to build secure, scalable applications. Join me as I guide you through everything required to incorporate a robust user authorization system into your application.

Add Passkeys to a Laravel App

Passkeys provide a simpler and more secure alternative to traditional passwords. Neat, but there's only one problem: the implementation instructions are incredibly complicated. Don't worry, I know the feeling. In this series, work along with me to bring passkeys to Laravel, and gain all the insight you'll need to add passkeys to your own applications!

Defensive Laravel

With Mateus Guimarães

In this series, we'll take a deep-dive into various strategies and tools that will help you write robust and reliable code. We'll explore core defensive programming concepts, from strict typing and immutable objects to leveraging value objects for more effective domain modeling. Okay, let's dig in!

Series produced by creators from the Laravel community.

Everything New in Livewire 4

With Caleb Porzio

Build Native Apps With PHP

With Simon Hamp

Welcome to my CreatorSeries! I’m Simon, and in this series we’re going to learn about NativePHP and use it to build true native applications for desktop and mobile. We're not talking about web apps accessed through the browser. Your users will be able to install directly on their devices. This is a big leap forward for the PHP ecosystem, and while it’s a real paradigm shift from the way we normally build with PHP and Laravel, we’ve worked hard to keep it familiar and approachable. So grab a warm drink, get comfortable, and let's start building!

Learn Statamic with Jack

With Jack McDade

You've probably heard of Statamic by now — that rebellious little Laravel-powered content management system that refuses to use databases. Well, it's pretty grown up now, and in this series we're going to learn how Statamic can help you build highly-scalable websites quickly and efficiently, including how to run on a database.We'll get into building add-ons, starter kits, and even pop the hood and explore just how all the flat file Statamic Magic (or Statamagic, some might say) works. Let's do this!

Get Real With Laravel Reverb

With Joe Dixon

Hi, I'm Joe, the creator of Laravel Reverb. In this course, I'll walk you through everything you need to know to start using real-time WebSocket communication in your Laravel applications. Join me as we cover everything from installation to deployment and monitoring on our journey getting real with Laravel Reverb! Let's go!

Build Advanced Components for Filament

With Dan Harrin

Once you're confidently building interfaces with all the components that are included with Filament, you'll likely want to begin building your own custom ones. Hi, I'm Dan: the co-founder of Filament. This series will teach you how to build components, like custom form fields and table columns, and how to distribute them in a plugin package. Meanwhile, you'll get to know all the tools of Filament's internal component system. Excited?

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!

Developing Serverless Functions in Laravel

With Aaron Francis

In this CreatorSeries, we cover how to develop serverless functions with Laravel, using a package called Sidecar. Serverless functions let you tap into the power of AWS Lambda, but without the complexity of setting up a new repo, deployment process, or API Gateway.You'll learn how to package, deploy, and execute these functions... all from your Laravel application!

Valet Uncovered

With Matt Stauffer

Valet has long been the local development environment of choice for Laravel developers on macOS. The way it seamlessly works might even look like magic!In this CreatorSeries, we'll dig into how to install and use Valet, explore some of its often-missed features, and walk through how the pieces fit together under the hood.

Automated Laravel Upgrades

With Jason McCreary

Hi! I'm Jason McCreary. I'm the founder of Laravel Shift, a popular service that provides automatic upgrades for your Laravel applications. In this CreatorSeries, using all of the knowledge I've acquired over the years of building and maintaining Shift, I'll show you how to automate many of your every-day development tasks.

Beginner Web Builder

Laravel From Scratch (2026 Edition)

JavaScript: The First Steps

With Andre Madarang

JavaScript is one of the most popular and versatile programming languages when working on the web. It makes for a great first language to learn as you can get started with any web browser and its built-in devtools.This beginner-focused series will take you through the fundamentals of JavaScript and give you a solid understanding of how the language works. Once the fundamentals are under your belt, you should be comfortable writing JavaScript in your own applications or continue your JavaScript journey by learning new frameworks or technologies that are built on top of it.

Learn Laravel and Vite

Laravel provides seamless integration with Vite, a next generation front-end bundler that is lightning fast. In this miniseries, join me as I outline Laravel's Vite integration in a way that's easy to understand. You'll be bundling your client-side assets in no time!

Frontend Mentor Challenge with Laravel

Testing and Quality

Pest Driven Laravel

With Christoph Rumpel

Learn to write applications that are fully tested and a joy to work with now and in the future through TDD. Tests are the base for writing code that is easy to change, refactor and maintain. There is no reason anymore to be afraid to touch your own code. Following test-driven development establishes the mindset that integrates testing and refactoring in your daily workflow.

Static Analysis with PHPStan

PHP is very much a dynamically typed language. You can write entire applications without ever so much as type hinting a string.But, if you prefer a stricter approach, there is a tool that makes PHP more akin to TypeScript or Rust - PHPStan! Let me show you the ropes in this short series.

Defensive Laravel

With Mateus Guimarães

Debugging Real-World Production Nightmares

Production bugs don't announce themselves politely. In this series, we confront ten nightmare scenarios using NightmareMart, an intentionally broken e-commerce app, demonstrating how to debug calmly and methodically when everything is on fire.

Laravel Business Apps

Build a Web Shop From A-Z

With Philo Hermans

In this course, together, we will build a web-shop from scratch. We'll use Laravel and Livewire to construct the storefront, and Stripe to manage payments and the checkout process. We'll even implement an "add to cart" functionality to allow for purchasing multiple items at once.It should be fun! I hope you're excited. Let's get going.

Build a Forum With Laravel

Building a forum is a great playground for getting acquainted with Laravel; there are so many little things to think about that really stretch the framework… and our minds! It's been a while since we built one on Laracasts, so join me as we create a feature rich forum together using the powerful ecosystem Laravel provides. Let's go!

Build Shopify Apps With Laravel

With Giorgi Gelashvili

Welcome to the world of Shopify, where I'll show you, step by step, how to build a Shopify app with Laravel from scratch. We'll cover everything you need to know - from the initial setup, all the way to deployment. I hope you're excited!

Build HTML Emails with Maizzle

Building HTML emails can be an arduous process because there is no standardization when it comes to email clients. In this series, I'll introduce you to Maizzle: a development environment that makes it a little easier to develop cross-client HTML emails. I think you'll like it a lot!

Creator Bits Mix

Jeffrey's Larabits

Jeremy's Larabits

Here, you'll find Jeremy McPeak's personal collection of Larabits. If you're unfamiliar, Larabits are short, isolated lessons that focus on a single concept or technique. While a typical series may take hours to work your way through, Larabits are instead for when you have five or ten minutes to pick up a small bit of knowledge.Please keep in mind that each of these lessons is self-contained and may be viewed in any order. Happy learning!

Simon's Larabits

Here, you'll find Simon Swiss's personal collection of Larabits. If you're unfamiliar, Larabits are short, isolated lessons that focus on a single concept or technique. While a typical series may take hours to work your way through, Larabits are instead for when you have five or ten minutes to pick up a small bit of knowledge.Please keep in mind that each of these lessons is self-contained and may be viewed in any order. Happy learning!

Luke's Larabits

Here, you'll find Luke Downing's personal collection of Larabits. If you're unfamiliar, Larabits are short, isolated lessons that focus on a single concept or technique. While a typical series may take hours to work your way through, Larabits are instead for when you have five or ten minutes to pick up a small bit of knowledge.Please keep in mind that each of these lessons is self-contained and may be viewed in any order. Happy learning!

Fast Laravel Interfaces

The TALL Developer

With Shruti Balasa

In this course, you'll learn how to build full-stack web applications using the TALL stack — Tailwind CSS, Alpine.js, Laravel, and Livewire. These four tools work incredibly well together and will help you construct modern, interactive websites without writing too much JavaScript. To illustrate these tools, let's build a simple, yet fully functional job board application using the TALL stack.

Livewire 3 From Scratch

Crafting Web Applications with HTMX

Modern web development is complex, but it doesn't have to be. HTMX can greatly simplify how you build modern web applications. Embrace simplicity, and join Jeremy McPeak as he uses HTMX (and Alpine) to modernize a basic web application.

Frontend Mentor Challenge with Laravel

AI Developer Skills

AI Developer Workflows

It's a brand new world. Suddenly, we find ourselves less writing code line by line, and more writing plans, coordinating agents, and building workflows. There's a lot to learn. But we gotcha!In this series, each episode will demonstrate one potential AI workflow that you might adopt in your own projects. Check back often, as we'll be adding new episodes every month.

Leveraging AI for Laravel Development

Watch Me AI the UI

In this workshop, come along as I upgrade the visual design of our Laracasts team dashboard. As you'll see, design work can sometimes be a bit tricky to orchestrate. Can AI properly evaluate a screenshot and convert it to CSS? Well, yes...and no! But luckily, we have a variety of techniques we can use to increase our odds of success. Let's go!

Vibe Coding Workshop

With Josh Johnson

Hi, I'm Josh, the creator of Wender. In this series, I'll teach you everything I've learned about how to treat vibe coding like a craft... rather than a magic trick. We're not chasing weekend Airbnb clones. No, we're interested in practical workflows for building better applications using AI. You'll learn about writing better prompts, what to do when things go sideways, and how to review diffs like a pro!

Team and Career Growth

How to Build a Dev Team

With Matt Stauffer

Resources for learning to code are everywhere. The only hard part is choosing one. But when it comes to learning how to lead a development team, quality resources are incredibly scarce. This course fills that gap. It contains all of the lessons I learned while building the dev team at Tighten, a Laravel consultancy known for producing great work, but with an even better reputation as a fantastic place to work.

How to Contribute to Open Source

Armed with a computer, some git knowledge, and an idea, any of us can contribute to the frameworks and packages that we use every day. Cool as that may be, it can initially be a daunting experience. So let's go on a journey together, as we take an idea for Laravel Prompts from musings to merging. Learning the basic processes will put you in good stead for contributing your own ideas.

Running Clock

The Laracasts Snippet

Listen to the latest episodes of The Laracasts Snippet podcast, where Jeffrey Way casually chats less about the code, itself, and more about the developer behind the code.

CLI and Native PHP

CLI Experiments

With Joe Tannenbaum

In this series, we'll explore building text-based user interfaces (TUIs) using Laravel Prompts. We'll examine the different aspects of building applications for the terminal, such as handling state, animations, and user interactions via the keyboard. By the end of the series, we'll have built seven fully functional CLI applications that will hopefully inspire you to go off and build your own!

Build Native Apps With PHP

With Simon Hamp

Code-Breaking Workshop

When I finish up work for the day, and switch back to dad mode, my kids love to do these little "code-breaking" worksheets where each letter in a secret message is represented as a symbol. They then refer to an alphabet lookup table, and perform the translation.There's only one problem... they take me a long time to manually create from scratch on paper. So let's build a kid-friendly web app to automate the entire process!

Programming Terms Explained