This week, the Laravel team released v11.9, which includes a new default exception page, a way to prevent destructive commands from running, a withoutDelay() queue method, and more. New Default Exception Page Laravel now ships with a minimal default exception page when your application is in debug mode. The...

The DB Auditor package for Laravel helps you audit your MySQL database standards and provides options to add missing constraints via CLI: DB Auditor table report This package can help you identify areas of your database that need work during development to optimize your production database. It...

In an upcoming Laravel release, you can prevent commands like database migrations from accidentally running in production environments. The next Laravel release should include the ability to use a framework Prohibitable trait to stop commands from running: use Illuminate\Console\Command; use Illuminate\Console\Prohibitable;...

In Laravel, you can configure additional environment files that will load instead of the .env file. This feature is helpful for testing, where you can load a .env.testing environment file instead of the default. You typically don't need to reach for this feature, but it's nice to know that by setting the APP_ENV...

Laravel Top provides real-time monitoring directly from the command line for Laravel applications. It helps you track critical metrics and see the busiest routes in your application. Since data is stored in Redis, theoretically, the top command output should represent data from all application servers, not just...

This week, the Laravel team released v11.8, with a new validation rule, the ability to fail a command outside the handle() method, create a view during make:mail, and more. Show Events in the model:show Command Wendell Adriel contributed an Events section to the model:show command that displays any events...