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Top Ten PHP and Laravel finds of the week - 20th November 2025

It's Friday once again! Another week has flown by here at Jump24 and us lucky PHP developers have had the joys of PHP8.5 being released yesterday, so lets get down to the top ten Laravel and PHP things I've found this week.

Great Barr 9 Holes it was a cold cold day

Speed Up Your Laravel Test Suite: The Cache Testing Traits You've Been Waiting For

Right, let's have a chat about test suite performance. You know that feeling when you push your code, then go make a brew while waiting for the CI pipeline to finish? Yeah, we've been there too. Laravel 12.38 just dropped two new testing traits that might just save you enough time to actually drink that tea while it's still hot.

PHP8.5 no discard attribute and why I think it's a great little addition to the language.

Join me as we find out more about PHP8.5s new #[\NoDiscard] Attribute. In this video I demonstrate how this attribute can help stop a specific set of bugs reach production, through the use of the Attribute and PHPStan.

Laravel's HTTP::batch(): Parallel Requests Done Right (Finally!)

You know that feeling when you need to fetch data from multiple APIs, and you're sitting there watching your application make request... after request... after request... while your users are staring at a loading spinner that's been going for so long it's practically become a screensaver?

RectorPHP and Laravel: The Automated Refactoring Tool We Should Have Been Using Years Ago

Hands up — how many of you have a Laravel 9 or 10 application that should be upgraded but the idea of refactoring thousands of lines makes you want to switch careers? We’ve been there. More than once.