Top Ten Laravel and PHP Things - 24/1/2025

Every week im going to be writing a more in depth version of my top ten Linkedin post. This is the first of many enjoy!.

It's Friday 🥳 so you know what that means! It's time for the top 🔟 Laravel and PHP things I have found this week across various social networks.

In 🥇 place this week we have Vincent Bean with his post "How I plan on scaling my Laravel (PHP) application" This was an interesting post, Vincent goes into detail on how he's going to scale he's 10Mpage application. - https://t.ly/2zhu-

In 🥈 place this week we have John Koster (https://x.com/johnmkoster) with his latest package "Dagger components for Laravel Blade". This package appears to have been well received in the community, it looks to have plenty of things going for it so its certainly one to keep an eye on - https://t.ly/vG00D

In 🥉 place this week we have Redberry • რედბერი's post "Getting to know the Laravel API Platform: Features, Benefits & Limitations". API platform isn't something I've had a chance to play around with yet but I know a number of developers who swear by it and use it a lot. It's built by https://les-tilleuls.coop/ who are a well known agency in the Laravel sphere so im confident its not the type of package that is just going to disappear into the ether - https://t.ly/smSPC

4️⃣ Rodolfo Berríos - "Worflow 1.0". After 2 years of development workflow has reached stable 1.0 which is a huge achievement for any package developer out there. - https://t.ly/0dwt_

5️⃣ Harris Raftopoulos - "Elegant Pipeline Cleanup with Laravel's finally Method". Harris has been knocking it out of the park the last 6 months with his writing, this is another great little post on how to use the new finally method on the Pipeline class showing a nice simple example on how to clean up anything that might be needed after you've run your pipeline - https://t.ly/NB1U1

6️⃣ Stephen Rees-Carter - "Do you have an Upgrade Plan?". As usual Stephen gives you the down low on why you need to upgrade your application, the security implications that come from not doing so. If you need someone to give your application a security check then he's the one person you should reach out to - https://t.ly/PAxQn

7️⃣ Paul Redmond Over on Laravel News - "UseFactory Attribute Added in Laravel 11.39". Laravel has been adding more and more Attribute support in V11 the latest release adds the ability to use the new #UserFactory attribute on your modes making it easier to link your model to your factory. I must admin I wasn't keen on attributes at first but they have grown on me and we're starting to use them a lot more at Jump24 - https://t.ly/gAedM

8️⃣ Geocodio - "How Geocodio keeps 300M addresses up to date". Have you ever wondered how you would go about keeping a huge amount of address data up to date then wonder no more, Geocodio have you covered with this post about ohh and look PIpes again :) - https://t.ly/3spJ8

9️⃣ Raymond Tukpe - "SQL NULLs are Weird!". We've all hit stumbling blocks in our time when it comes SQL, here is a fun one about NULLs and how weird they can be - https://t.ly/sSXBg

🔟 Bitshift Technolabs - "Building a Multi-Tenant SaaS Application with Laravel from Scratch'. Well this is an odd one it seems to have now disappeared :(- https://t.ly/zPGHF

That's it for this weeks top 🔟 A huge thanks to everyone above. I hope you enjoyed them and you manage to take a way a few new tidbits. Don't forget to tag your posts with #PHP or#Laravel or drop me a message on Twitter for a chance to be in next weeks top ten.