The Laravel Podcast

By Taylor Otwell, Matt Stauffer

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The Laravel Podcast brings you Laravel and PHP development news and discussion.

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The Laravel Podcast episodes:

04.09.2024
Laravel 11 Release, Context, New Hires, & Open-Source Sustainability
Welcome back to another episode of the Laravel podcast! In this episode, we dive into the exciting release of Laravel 11 and discuss its impact since it has been out in the wild. Taylor also shares his insights on the...
03.25.2024
Season Six Trailer
(Posted in the middle of Season Six, to take advantage of new features in our podcast hosting platform)
02.27.2024
Laravel 11, Reverb, Herd Windows/Pro, & Other Laracon EU Recap
In this episode of the Laravel Podcast, we are diving into the highlights of Laracon EU including the unveiling of Laravel 11 and the introduction of Laravel Reverb. Taylor Otwell shares insights on the streamlined application structure and new features...
02.06.2024
Hiring at Laravel, Laracons & Laravel Lives, and Typesense
In this episode of the Laravel Podcast, we talk about the recent announcement of hiring a new head of engineering at Laravel and the impact it will have on the future of Laravel. We also dive into the upcoming conferences...
01.16.2024
Cashier vs. Spark, Pest vs. PHPUnit, and How We Manage Remote Teams
In this episode of the Laravel Podcast we are packing it in! We're diving into the freshest drops, like FrankenPHP, Cashier Quickstarts, and the buzz about the upcoming Laravel Worldwide Meetup. We'll also weigh Cashier against Spark, discuss boot service...
12.19.2023
How Taylor Otwell Came Up With Products That Have Earned Him Millions
In this episode of the Laravel Podcast, we revisit a Laravel Snippet from 2019 in which Taylor talks about how he comes up with ideas for products. We also cover how to build your audience, how to balance perfection and...
11.28.2023
Laravel Pulse, First Party Packages, & the Future of Laravel
In this episode, we're unwrapping the highlights from Laracon AU, with a special focus on Laravel Pulse leading our discussion. Taylor takes the reins to guide us through the origins and functionality of Laravel Pulse, a health monitoring tool for...
11.14.2023
Matt & Taylor’s Preferred Tech Stacks for New Laravel Apps
In this jam-packed episode, we dive deep into the world of app development, exploring the essential choices and tools that shape a successful project from start to finish. Join us as we share our preferred tech stacks for launching a...
10.31.2023
A Day in the Life of Taylor Otwell, Managing a Remote Team, Productivity, Regrets, & Marriage
You asked, we answered! In this episode we are addressing your questions! Join us as we explore a typical day in Taylor’s life at Laravel, share insights on remote team management, and inquire about Taylor’s productivity secrets. We also share...
10.17.2023
Volt Breeze, Testing, Traits, & Inheritance
Join us in this episode as we discuss the new Livewire + Volt Functional API stack for Breeze and its capabilities. We also demystify essential testing best practices to keep your code scandal-free and away from front-page mishaps. Uncover the...
10.03.2023
Screencasting, Livewire Breeze, Hosting Options, Envoyer, & Pull Requests
New Laravel features are making deployment easier than ever! In our second episode of season six, we explore various topics, screencasting.com by Aaron Francis, the Livewire stack within Breeze, new features in Laravel Prompts, Laravel Pail, a range of hosting...
09.26.2023
Welcome back Taylor! Laravel 11, Folio/Volt, PHP, and Final Classes
In our first episode of season six, we welcome back Taylor Otwell as a co-host and talk about all the exciting developments in the world of Laravel. In this episode, we dive into Laravel 11, Folio and Volt, final classes...
08.12.2022
League CSV (and URI & Period), with Ignace Nyamagana Butera
In this episode we talk with Ignace Nyamagana Butera, a Software Developer, about the PHP League packages that he's created: League CSV, League URI and League Period, which, in order: makes CSV data manipulation much easier in PHP, provides a...
06.24.2022
Pest, with Nuno Maduro
In this episode we talk with Nuno Maduro about the PHP testing framework Pest, a PHP testing framework that focuses on bringing you a more simplified, fluent, and powerful way of writing automated tests.Nuno Maduro's Twitter - https://twitter.com/enunomaduroSponsor Nuno Maduro...
06.10.2022
Spatie's Laravel-Backup, with Freek Van der Herten
In this episode we talk with Freek Van der Herten about Spatie's Laravel package Laravel-Backup, which can make a backup of your application to any external storage destination of your choice. You can choose what should be backed up: files...
05.27.2022
Socialite, Scout & Sail, with Taylor Otwell
In this episode we talk with Taylor Otwell about the first-party Laravel packages Socialite, Scout, and Sail. Socialite is a tool for authenticating users with other login providers, and makes it easy to add a login with GitHub authentication flow...
05.13.2022
Bouncer, with Joseph Silber
In this episode we talk with Joseph Silber about the third-party Laravel package Bouncer, an authorization package which allows the user to quickly create and manage roles and abilities. As an additional note, the lovely outro music--like last time Joseph...
04.29.2022
Cashier, with Dries Vints
In this episode we talk with Dries Vints about the first-party Laravel package Cashier, which provides an easy, fluent interface to Stripe's subscription billing services. We discuss the two different versions of this package and how to determine which one...
04.15.2022
Sanctum & Passport, with Taylor Otwell
In this episode, we talk with Taylor Otwell about the first-party Laravel auth packages Passport and Sanctum. We discuss the history of how they came to be, their differences, and which of the two might better serve your needs.Taylor Otwell's...
04.01.2022
Laravel Debugbar, with Barry vd. Heuvel
In this episode, we talk with Barry vd. Heuvel, creator of Laravel Debugbar. A package provides an overview that allows you to quickly & easily see what’s going on inside your application. We talk about how he got started &...
03.18.2022
Laravel Excel, with Spartner's Arne Schoenmakers & Patrick Brouwers
In this episode, Arne Schoenmakers and Patrick Brouwers talk about Spartner’s popular package, Laravel excel. It is a supercharged, simple way to export and import powerful excel data.Spartner, website - https://spartner.software/Spartner, Twitter- https://twitter.com/spartnerNLArne Schoenmakers, Twitter - https://twitter.com/arneschoenmakerPatrick Brouwers, Twitter -...
03.04.2022
Fortify, Breeze, Jetstream, & Spark, with Taylor Otwell
In the first episode of season 5, Taylor Otwell joins us to talk about the packages Fortify, Breeze, Jetstream, and Spark. We discuss the differences between each one and which package is a great place to start.Taylor Otwell - https://twitter.com/taylorotwell ...
11.11.2021
The Laravel Podcast, Season 5
The Laravel Podcast brings you Laravel and PHP development news and discussion. Season 5 consists of Matt Stauffer interviewing the creators of the most popular packages in the Laravel ecosystem. ----- Editing and transcription sponsored by Tighten.
04.13.2021
Packages, with Freek Van der Herten & Marcel Pociot
We all use third party packages in our Laravel applications, and even Laravel itself is composed of packages. But how do they work? How do you pick the best packages? What can packages actually do? In this episode Laravel's most...
03.30.2021
Upgrading, with Jason McCreary
As much as we all wish our apps would just run forever, in reality, they need some tender love and care in order to keep running smoothly and safely. That means we need to know how to upgrade them! Laravel...
03.16.2021
Deploying & Servers, with Chris Fidao
One of the most common questions that the Laravel docs just can't answer for you is "How and where do I deploy my Laravel app?" There are a ton of options, but a few recommended options, and Chris Fidao, creator...
03.02.2021
Queues, with Mohamed Said
Some times events, jobs, and queues can feel a bit overwhelming, and sometimes they can feel so simple it feels like you're doing it wrong. Mohamed Said is not just the expert on how queues work, he's the expert on...
02.16.2021
Security, with Rizqi Djamaluddin
It's every application developer's nightmare: your app gets hacked and everyone's private data is out in the open, and it's your fault. Thankfully, Laravel and the tools it brings have the best security practices baked in. But a framework can...
02.02.2021
Helpers & Collections, with Jacob Baker-Kretzmar
Laravel's Collections were popularized by Adam Wathan's book "Refactoring to Collections", but if you haven't read the book you may be left wondering exactly what they are and how we work with them. And you've likely seem some of the...
01.05.2021
Mail and Notifications, with Wilbur Powery
Laravel has two primary notification systems: Mail and Notifications. What do each do? How do you use them? When should you use one or the other? Active community member and Wilbur group programmer WIlbur Powery joins us to talk about...
12.22.2020
APIs, with Jess Archer
We all interact with APIs, even if we don't write them, right? The APIs that power our mobile apps, the APIs we use in our code. But Jess Archer wants you to know there's a whole wide world of what...
12.08.2020
Storage, with Frank de Jonge
Laravel offers two systems for accessing the filesystem: the File facade and the Storage facade. The Storage facade wraps a package called "Flysystem", and in this episode Flysystem creator Frank de Jonge talks about how Laravel's storage and file systems...
11.24.2020
Cache, Session, Middleware, & Request, with Samantha Geitz
Some of the most important pieces of Laravel are still those which don't fit neatly into broader categories. In this episode we cover those and somehow even manage to tie them together in a mega episode with four neat and...
11.10.2020
The Service Container, with Christoph Rumpel
You may not know it, but the service container — also known as the container, the IOC container, the DI container, or just "the application" — is that the core of every Laravel application. It's the glue that holds it...
10.27.2020
Tinker, Artisan, & CLI, with Nuno Maduro
While Laravel is a web framework, many of our interactions with our apps—whether when writing them or when using them—happens on the command line. In this episode, Laravel employee and creator of Laravel Zero Nuno Maduro joins us to talk...
10.13.2020
Testing, with Adam Wathan
Learning how to test your applications can be overwhelming. In this episode, testing master Adam Wathan, author of TailwindCSS and host of Full Stack Radio, joins us in another role: The creator of Test-Driven Laravel. Learn about all the basics...
09.29.2020
Mix, with Jordan Pittman
Webpack seems to be the brunt of every joke around JavaScript tooling these days, but somehow it still sticks around--probably because it's the most powerful tool we've got! Learn how Laravel Mix helps us tame Webpack and, with very simple...
09.15.2020
Presets & Jetstream, with Michael Dyrynda
One of the most powerful tools in creating Laravel apps quickly is how much you can get done in an app that just contains the skeleton scaffold Laravel comes with. The frontend presets, which in Laravel 8+ are now contained...
09.01.2020
Authorization and Authentication, with Joseph Silber
If your app has users, it's likely you're going to want to know who they are and what they can--and can't--do. Take a listen to this introduction to the two "auth"'s, authentication and authorization, and how they work in Laravel.Joseph...
08.18.2020
Migrations, Factories, and Seeding, with John Bonaccorsi
Eloquent and the Query Builder allow us to interact with our database, but how do we get those databases in the right shape? How do we define their schema, their sample data, or how to run tests against them? In...
08.04.2020
Eloquent and the Query Builder, with Jonathan Reinink
Very few Laravel applications don’t have a data store backing them, and the vast majority are backed by a relational database like MySQL. Laravel’s built-in tooling for interacting with databases, Eloquent and the Query Builder, are powerful, flexible, easy-to-use tools...
07.21.2020
Debugging and Monitoring, with Jonty Behr
Every app has bugs! Learning to debugging your apps is a powerful and vital skill, but we also need to know when the bugs are happening, so pair that with good monitoring and you’re ready to go! In this episode,...
07.07.2020
Routing and Blade, with Caleb Porzio
Any web-based application routes all its requests through URL. Laravel’s routing allows you to define URLs, URL patterns, and HTTP Verbs to match you users’ incoming request to your application’s logic. And, while not all web-based applications return HTML, most...
06.23.2020
Local Environment with Valet, Homestead, and Docker, with Chris Brown, Jose Soto, Joe Ferguson
If you're going to work in modern web development, one of the key ingredients is a local development environment that doesn't rely on anything but your local machine to run. But, even just in the Laravel world, there are so...
06.09.2020
Object Oriented Programming, with Alena Holligan
Most modern web applications and frameworks are built on the principles of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP),. Laravel itself is object-oriented. But many of us learn about OOP bit by bit as we're coding, not in any formal way. In this episode...
05.26.2020
Getting Good with Git, with Gemma Anible
Most modern development workflows rely on version control, and most of those use Git. It's easy to follow a quick tutorial and learn a few basic commands--and you should, before listening to this episode--but how much do you know about...
05.12.2020
Intro to Composer, with Jordi Boggiano
As PHP and Laravel programmers, we use Composer every day. But we often don't know its history, nuances, or the plans for the future. In this episode Matt talks with Jordi Bogianno, co-creator and co-maintainer of Composer, about the powerful...
04.28.2020
Learning & Keeping Up To Date, with Eric Barnes
If you're going to work with Laravel -- or any tech stack -- you need to find the best way to learn it, and then you need to find the best way to stay up to date over time. Eric...
04.14.2020
The Ethos of Laravel, with Taylor Otwell
Laravel Podcast Season Four is all about the topics you need to know to work in Laravel. This episode is about The Ethos of Laravel, and Matt is joined by Taylor Otwell, creator of Laravel. They talk about what makes...
04.10.2020
Introducing Laravel Podcast Season Four
We're back! It's a new season, and a new format: Each episode will bring a guest or guests on to talk about a single topic in the Laravel world. ----- Editing and transcription sponsored by Tighten.

What's The Laravel Podcast about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The Laravel Podcast episodes:

Laravel 11 Release, Context, New Hires, & Open-Source Sustainability

Season Six Trailer

Laravel 11, Reverb, Herd Windows/Pro, & Other Laracon EU Recap

Hiring at Laravel, Laracons & Laravel Lives, and Typesense

Cashier vs. Spark, Pest vs. PHPUnit, and How We Manage Remote Teams

How Taylor Otwell Came Up With Products That Have Earned Him Millions

Laravel Pulse, First Party Packages, & the Future of Laravel

Matt & Taylor’s Preferred Tech Stacks for New Laravel Apps

A Day in the Life of Taylor Otwell, Managing a Remote Team, Productivity, Regrets, & Marriage

Volt Breeze, Testing, Traits, & Inheritance

Screencasting, Livewire Breeze, Hosting Options, Envoyer, & Pull Requests

Welcome back Taylor! Laravel 11, Folio/Volt, PHP, and Final Classes

League CSV (and URI & Period), with Ignace Nyamagana Butera

Pest, with Nuno Maduro

Spatie's Laravel-Backup, with Freek Van der Herten

Socialite, Scout & Sail, with Taylor Otwell

Bouncer, with Joseph Silber

Cashier, with Dries Vints

Sanctum & Passport, with Taylor Otwell

Laravel Debugbar, with Barry vd. Heuvel

Laravel Excel, with Spartner's Arne Schoenmakers & Patrick Brouwers

Fortify, Breeze, Jetstream, & Spark, with Taylor Otwell

The Laravel Podcast, Season 5

Packages, with Freek Van der Herten & Marcel Pociot

Upgrading, with Jason McCreary

Deploying & Servers, with Chris Fidao

Queues, with Mohamed Said

Security, with Rizqi Djamaluddin

Helpers & Collections, with Jacob Baker-Kretzmar

Mail and Notifications, with Wilbur Powery

APIs, with Jess Archer

Storage, with Frank de Jonge

Cache, Session, Middleware, & Request, with Samantha Geitz

The Service Container, with Christoph Rumpel

Tinker, Artisan, & CLI, with Nuno Maduro

Testing, with Adam Wathan

Mix, with Jordan Pittman

Presets & Jetstream, with Michael Dyrynda

Authorization and Authentication, with Joseph Silber

Migrations, Factories, and Seeding, with John Bonaccorsi

Eloquent and the Query Builder, with Jonathan Reinink

Debugging and Monitoring, with Jonty Behr

Routing and Blade, with Caleb Porzio

Local Environment with Valet, Homestead, and Docker, with Chris Brown, Jose Soto, Joe Ferguson

Object Oriented Programming, with Alena Holligan

Getting Good with Git, with Gemma Anible

Intro to Composer, with Jordi Boggiano

Learning & Keeping Up To Date, with Eric Barnes

The Ethos of Laravel, with Taylor Otwell

Introducing Laravel Podcast Season Four