Week 07/08 - Video recorder UI, Dynamic Partial Rendering, and more!

Want to use AI to chat with your own documents? At scale, it’s harder than it sounds. Join @nicodevs.bsky.social to build a chatbot using the new Laravel AI SDK, Postgres, and Livewire 4 🤖 Learn RAG and semantic search from scratch 👇 tighten.com/insights/cha...

Delegated Types is one of my favorite Active Record patterns! It surfaces the invisible hierarchy in polymorphic relations, lets you define richer models and their nesting, track data changes on the type cleanly, and so much more. Had fun writing this one!

Hotwire Weekly - Happy 2026

Parental, our Single-Table-Inheritance package, has a new release: v1.5.0! 👇 • Models can now transition from one child type to another, with become() • You can store child type as integers instead of strings • Eager loading children is even easier than ever tighten.com/insights/new...

Plain HTML and CSS can be beautiful. Stay tuned 👀

I've just made some changes to the Hotwire Starter Kit. Following the official Laravel Starter Kits, it now has 2FA and all the auth-related routes were replaced with Fortify! Also, Rails has Fizzy and Campfire as demo Hotwire apps, we'll soon have one too for Laravel world.hey.com/tonysm/hotwi...

Fizzy source code is amazing. All I expected from a Vanilla Rails app. Regular controllers, regular models. No fancy architecture. It uses import maps and vanilla CSS, so all we need to run it locally is Ruby. The app is very colorful and vibrant, view transitions make it feel so good. Hotwire FTW.

Do you need AI in your app but can’t share private data with AI providers? You can self host and run models on your own servers thanks to Ollama 🦙 Join @nicodevs.bsky.social set it up & integrate it with your Laravel app, building a chat for super spies (TOP SECRET!) 👇 tighten.com/insights/bui...

Week 46 - Herb v0.8, Inline Edit Custom Element, and more!

Every year, JavaScript brings new features that save us from relying on heavy libraries. From formatting dates to cloning objects, discover some of these handy additions in today's article.👇 tighten.com/insights/new...

The first three episodes of my "How to Build a Dev Team" course are live--and free--on Laracasts today! laracasts.com/series/how-t...

If you want AI agents to be able to interact with your Laravel app, but you're not sure where to start, check out @mateusjunges.com’ post around the magic and efficiency of adding an MCP to your Laravel app today. 👇 tighten.com/insights/let...

Please welcome @johnbon.dev into your ears! John has a side project with (gasp) actual users! And the best part is: it's seasonal. His users are active for 3 months of the year then he gets 9 months to tinker and upgrade. The dream. Check it out now: sideprojectpodcast.com/episodes/fan...

Heading home after an amazing week of Laracon and @tighten.com Onsite! So freaking energizing. I can't wait to get home and hack on all these stuff (after a cool down period, ofc).✌️

Today on the blog, @tonysm.com continues the Rich Text Laravel series and demonstrates how flexible Content Attachments are! We can embed pretty much anything to our rich text documents! Click the link below:👇 tighten.com/insights/ric...

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Week 22 - Streaming Turbo Streams Over HTTP, Custom Android Keyboard Extension, and more! https://www.hotwireweekly.com/archive/week-22-streaming-turbo-streams-over-http-custom-android-keyboard-extension

The source diving walkthrough bits on this one are lovely — one of the things I love about php & (non-uglified) js is being able to go to definition, figure about and gain a notion around extending things

New video is out! With Turbo.js, we can deliver Turbo Streams in 3 ways: adding to the DOM, returning a special document that only contains Turbo Stream tags with a custom MIME type, or broadcasting via WS/SSE. Let's see how we can add a 4th way: HTTP Streaming. youtu.be/vGr0vI3n22c

New video on how we can deploy Laravel apps with Kamal (V2!) is out! This demo app uses MySQL, Ollama, and it hints at something we'll cover in the next video: being able to stream Turbo Streams directly from HTTP. youtu.be/_UtZIgDLZXE

Week 19 - From Next.js to Rails, Building a Password Manager, and more!

Just added another round of new entries to BuiltWithLaravel. Need to make the process to add entries faster so I can get them in there, but still adding a few a week! (builtwithlaravel.com)

EN: DAY 01 - ALL TALKS AVAILABLE 🚀🌴 All the talks are now available on YouTube! 🔗www.youtube.com/@tropicalon... PT-BR: DIA 01 - TODAS PALESTRAS DISPONÍVEIS 🚀🌴 Todas as palestras já estão disponíveis no Youtube 🔗www.youtube.com/@tropicalon...

Week 17 - Hotwire Native 1.2, Hotwire Native for Laravel Devs, and more!

Shout-out to @mattstauffer.com for this super helpful article on getting prettier set up (incl autoformatting!) with Laravel Blade mattstauffer.com/blog/how-to-...

I recently gave a talk about Hotwire Native (and Hotwire 101) for Laravel Devs. Decided to record it and share. I cover Hotwire for the web, then jump into Hotwire Native. There's a demo app at the end where I show most of what I cover in the talk. I hope you enjoy it! youtu.be/NKkLzsP9cK0

Celebrate 200+ stars, I'm excited to share my new library. 📲 Bridge Components for Hotwire Native apps • 13+ components • iOS and Android support • Example iOS, Android, and Rails apps • Full source code Copy-paste into your app and wire up the HTML! github.com/joemasilotti...

Week 14 - Hotwire Starter Kit for Laravel, new Hotwire Native App, and more!

I'm working on a Hotwire Starter Kit for Laravel. Comes with Tailwind CSS Laravel & Importmap Laravel (#nobuild), Stimulus Laravel, Hotreload, and daisyUI. It is ready to be integrated into a Hotwire Native application. Here's the intro video: youtu.be/xEVPugIcngg

There's not just one way to seed your Laravel apps. Check out our latest article to learn: ✅ How to import thousands of records from CSV ✅ How to use AI to seed realistic data ✅ How to create interactive seeders ...and more! tighten.com/insights/10-...

Laravel 12.2 Introduces Custom Starter Kits

Here’s post 2 in my Object-Oriented Rails series. Post 1 argued business logic doesn’t belong in active jobs. But it lacked some code examples. Now we put pen to paper explaining how to move the logic into the model and out of your job. Also, email newsletter is live! jose.omg.lol/posts/just-w...

I’m kicking off a series of blog posts called "object-oriented Rails". First off — why business logic doesn’t belong in active jobs. Let me know what you think! jose.omg.lol/posts/its-no...

Here's a video about the Hotreload for Turbo Laravel package: youtu.be/y8L3dDDYzEw?...

I've ported the Hotwire Spark gem to Turbo Laravel. I could have settled with Vite for hotreload, but I wanted to see if this simplistic mechanism worked with PHP-only. Turns out it did! And it doesn't require additional commands or new tooling. It's just PHP and SSE. world.hey.com/tonysm/hotre...

I simplified the Turbo Laravel site and shipped it a few days ago. I also went through the Bootcamp trying to simplify it and updated all the images of the web version. I'll be working on the Hotwire Native part of the Bootcamp soon. turbo-laravel.com/bootcamp/hot...

Week 07 - Hotwire Native Cameras, OfferLab's Success, and more! https://hotwireweekly.com/archive/week-07-hotwire-native-cameras-offerlabs-success/

I talk about it all the time, so it should come as no surprise that my favourite trick to avoiding XSS with complex HTML output is to use Laravel's HtmlString with {{ ... }}. The less you use {!! ... !!}, the harder it is for XSS to hide! 🕵️ https://securinglaravel.com/security-tip-avoiding-xss-w…

In today's article, discover 5 tips to build better full-text searches: ✅ Sort records ✅ Use filters effectively ✅ Tweak typo tolerance ✅ Access the raw Typesense response ✅ Use facets for better filtering Click the link below 👇 tighten.com/insights/fiv...

Rich Text Laravel

🔗 Introducing Rich Text Laravel: A package to integrate Trix into Laravel applications

I started a new series on the @tighten.com blog! Checkout the first post! More stuff coming soon.

Opened up my email today and saw the beta release: instant buy! Can't wait to dive in. I'll follow along in Laravel... 👀

As of today, Docker is the only dependency needed to use Takeout. We're packaging it in a Docker image, so you don't even need PHP installed locally to use it. Switch to the new installation path (it's just an alias now) and spin up those accessory services in no time. Enjoy! 🎉

I've been using Kamal to deploy my Laravel apps since v1 came out. I gave a talk about it at local DevOps event this weekend, so I repackaged my scripts to a blog post. Here's how you can deploy Laravel apps with Kamal 2: world.hey.com/tonysm/deplo...

It's pretty cool that we can use the events on Trix to add custom typing experiences, like this markdown-inspired quick formatting:

I promised a video series on Trix & Laravel, and I only started working on it a few days ago. Here's the first video where I walkthrough the Workbench app inside the Rich Text Laravel package and dive into oembeds (which is based on Campfire): youtu.be/M0Z9WFbY-8U?... More videos coming!

One of the early issues Bluesky had was people began putting slurs in their usernames because there was no username filter for that kind of thing. They fixed the problem and issued an apology. But it got me thinking, how is the #Laravel world handling this in your projects? Is there a package?