Week ending January 16, 2026
It's Friday once more so its time for this weeks Top Ten what a week its been with the release of Livewire 4, Claude code being down and of course lots of lovely posts to read.
In 🥇 place this week it's the one and only Aaron Francis! None of us really know whats going to happen this year with AI and developer roles thanks to it. Instead of being all glum and gloomy Aaron has fully embraced this and he's about to release a new course with all the things that he's been learning that he's hoping will help up skill you with everything you will need to work alongside AI and to embrace it for the tool that it is, the tool that can help you become a better developer.
by Caleb Porzio
In 🥈 place this week we have Caleb Porzio with the release of Livewire 4 he's put together a article and video walking us through the new features in the latest version of Livewire.
In 🥉 place this week we have Harris Raftopoulos with his latest video in the Laravel in Practice series, this time he's covering adding real-time updates to your application thanks to Reverb - 📽️ - https://t.ly/p1BybUtilizes Reverb, a web socket server written in PHP, and Laravel Echo Covers setting up broadcasting with Laravel 12 Instructions on creating events for new orders Handling real-time data updates on the front-end with Livewire components Configures the environment, creates event classes, dispatches events, and updates the dashboard UI Showcases real-time changes without requiring page refreshes
We all know that the more you understand how to architect your code the better chance you codebase can scale and be reliable. Steve goes into detail
Another great video with Nuno and Brent as they go through some of the new tools in the PHP space such as Mago, Rector as well as things that will hopefully be coming to PHP in 2026.
Punyapal Shah and Bhushan Gaikwad show how to use tappable scopes to help manage your Eloquent queries, this looks like a very nice approach to create clearn reusable logic for your eloquent models
Gustavo talks us through how he went about creating his terminal feel website during his 2024 rebuild. A fun little experiment to use Laravel commands to build a system of terminal features on the website.
by Josh Cirre
Use Inertia? Check, Have Forms? Check. Not using the latest Inertia Form Component? Check. Then give this video a watch as Josh walks you through using the new form component showing how much easier forms have become in Inertia
In this post Ryan shows how you can use this tiny bash script to easily sets up Stripe CLI based on your env file
by Ashley Allen
Ashley walks us through using Junie in PHPStorm, going about adding a new feature inside a fresh Laravel application.
Bert Deep dives into the new release of Livewire (4). He walks us through a number of things such as Islands, @placeholder directive and the @persist directive