Joe Tannenbaum (@joe.codes)

Joe Tannenbaum on Laravel's Open Source Future & Wayfinder At @LaraconEU @ericlbarnes sits down with Joe Tannenbaum who leads the Laravel open source team, to discuss what's new and what's coming in the Laravel ecosystem. From expanding the open-source team to 7 members to Laravel's growing focus on AI-powered development, Joe shares how the team is making Laravel even more AI-friendly with opinionated guardrails and tools like Boost and the AI SDK. They dive into Wayfinder, the PHP-to-TypeScript bridge that auto-syncs routes, enums, and validation rules between your backend and frontend. Joe also reveals Maestro, a new centralized system for managing Laravel's 20+ starter kit variations, and confirms that an API-only starter kit is in the works. The conversation wraps up with their personal stack preferences — Joe is on the Inertia +, Vue team, while Eric flies the TALL stack flag — and a call for community contributions via pull requests. ### Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:33 Meet Joe Tannenbaum 0:48 Growing the Laravel open source team 1:45 The year of Laravel AI 2:08 Making Laravel AI-friendly & guardrails 3:05 Are IDEs going away? 4:36 Starter kits & Svelte support 5:27 Maestro: centralized starter kit management 6:17 API-only starter kit confirmed 6:55 Wayfinder deep dive 7:38 Wayfinder beta: enums, validation & types 8:48 Joe's Inertia talk at Laracon 9:04 Contributing PRs to open source 11:17 Stack preferences: Vue vs TALL stack 12:24 Caleb's Livewire & Blaze 12:57 Closing --- Recorded at Laracon EU 2026, Amsterdam ➫ Business Inquiries: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- JOIN OUR WEEKLY LARAVEL NEWSLETTER 👉 https://laravel-news.com/newsletter ---------------------------------------------------------------------- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYfcoh9SZfU