Top Ten Laravel And PHP Things - 21-11-2025

It's Friday once again! Firstly let me apologise about the sound on the video I made some changes to my setup this week and I haven't been able to find and fix the hissing issue as of yet. Another week has flown by here at Jump24 and us lucky PHP developers have had the joys of PHP8.5 being released on Thursday, so lets get down to the top ten Laravel and PHP things I've found this week.

In 🥇 place this week we have Christopher Miller, Mike Page and you guessed it Me with one of the latest PHP Alive and Kicking Podcasts. I really enjoyed taking part in this podcast they've had some great guests so far so was a real honour to be invited on - 📽️ - https://t.ly/_AgXU

In 🥈 place this week we have Pete Heslop from Steadfast Collective over on the Laravel Artisan of the day blog - "Laravel Developer-Turned-Educator. The Artisan of the Day Is Pete Heslop." - https://t.ly/Oac9q

In 🥉 place this week Luke Kuzmish with "Improving unit test run time in a Laravel modular monolith" - this post goes into detail about a bottleneck Luke found in the test suite at work which then lead him to create a PR into the framework that was merged and recently released adding 2 new traits to the test suite to help us speed up our tests suites - https://t.ly/v0TIf

🥇 Christopher Miller, Mike Page and Daniel Newns over on the PHP Alive and Kicking Podcast - 📽️ - https://t.ly/_AgXU
🥈 Pete Heslop over on the Laravel Artisan of the day blog "Laravel Developer-Turned-Educator. The Artisan of the Day Is Pete Heslop." - https://t.ly/Oac9q
🥉 Luke Kuzmish - "Improving unit test run time in a Laravel modular monolith" - https://t.ly/v0TIf
4️⃣ Ollie 👾 Read 👾 - "Laravel Middleware Priority" - https://t.ly/c3rw9
5️⃣ Markus Staab - "New and noteworthy: PHPStan and PHPUnit integration" - https://t.ly/Sx1Ku
6️⃣ Harris Raftopoulos over on the Laravel News blog - 📽️ - "Modernizing Code with Rector - Laravel In Practice EP12" - https://t.ly/svcB9
7️⃣ Jonathan Bird - "Livewire vs React/Vue in Laravel: Do you need the extra complexity?" - https://t.ly/kVWEZ
8️⃣ Bert De Swaef with his latest Code with Burt video "How to use Flexible Caching in Laravel | Tutorial | Quick Win Wednesday hashtag#QWW" - 📽️ - https://t.ly/9CJeY
9️⃣ Sebastian Bergmann - "Modern PHP Development" - https://t.ly/ShiMA
🔟 Ashley Allen - "Immutable and Mutable Dates in PHP" - https://t.ly/IzSzo

That's it for this week hopefully there is something there for everyone to enjoy reading. Don't forget to tag your posts with #PHP or #Laravel for a chance to be in next weeks top ten.

Thanks for reading and let me know in the comments what your favourite read is or what you might have found this week.