HydePHP is a static site generator created by Emma De Silva that combines Laravel with Markdown for a streamlined development experience. Released at the October 2025 Laravel Meetup in Stockholm, HydePHP v2.0 introduces a range of improvements, including an updated asset system, a redesigned navigation API, and various enhancements designed to make development more efficient. With the adoption of Vite for frontend tooling and updates to several core features, this release focuses on performance, flexibility, and ease of use.
Major Features
- Modern Frontend Tooling with Vite: Replaced Laravel Mix with Vite for a faster, more modern development experience.
- Enhanced Asset Management System: The new consolidated Asset API provides a more intuitive interface for handling media files
- Redesigned Navigation API: The navigation system has been completely rewritten for maximum flexibility.
- Improved Documentation Features: Documentation pages now benefit from several enhancements. e.g., Smart natural language processing and dynamic source file links
- Better Developer Experience: Numerous quality-of-life improvements for developers. e.g., PHP 8.4 support and Improved error messages with clearer exception handling
- and much more.
In version 2, there are a few breaking changes to be aware of, such as:
- Tailwind CSS v3 to v4 upgrade, so you will need to run the automated upgrade tool to migrate your custom classes
- ESM module migration, so if you have custom JavaScript, you will need to update to ESM syntax.
- The Navigation configuration now uses a new array-based format
- In the Features Configuration, static method calls have been replaced with enum values in your
config/hyde.php.
View the full release notes in the official documentation and take a look at the source code at GitHub.
