Laravel Roundup - October

Welcome to the first edition of the Laravel Roundup. At the beginning of each month, we plan to create a post highlighting the latest news, jobs, and community-related items.

Recent Highlights

Laravel raises a $57 million Series A from Accel
Partnering with Accel has allowed Laravel to start building a world-class engineering and leadership team, which has resulted in Laravel Cloud and another product that will be announced at Laracon AU in November.

Pinkary is now fully open source
Nuno Maduro announced at Laracon that Pinkary is now fully open source.

New Laravel Creator Spotlight Interview Series
We started a new interview video series on our YouTube channel to highlight people creating things within the community.

PHP 8.4 RC1 is out
The PHP team announced the release of the first PHP 8.4 release candidate!

Laravel Releases
Laravel continues its weekly release schedule, and many handy new features have been added recently. Check our releases page for info on each new one.

Pest 3 is released
The Pest team released Pest 3. Get started with mutation testing today and level up your existing projects by finding untested code.

Companies Hiring Laravel Developers

Full Stack Engineer
Hobart, Australia
Senior Laravel developer
Remote:Latam, Remote:Canada, Remote:UK
Full-Stack Developer - Remote
Remote
Senior Laravel Developer
Hybrid/UK
Senior PHP Developer - Lead Backend SaaS
Remote, EUROPE/US only
Senior Fullstack Software Engineer
Remote / US
Engineering Manager
Remote
Full Stack Software Engineer
UK; Remote
Senior Full Stack Software Engineer
Remote/USA
Mid-level Laravel Developer
Remote
Senior Full-stack Engineer
Remote/Europe
PHP and Laravel Developer
Copenhagen or remote GMT +-1
Laravel Jedi
Remote (Asia Pacific / Europe)
Senior Laravel Developer
Remote (EU)
Senior Laravel Developer
Remote, North America Only
Full Stack Laravel Software Engineer
Hybrid / Boca Raton, FL
Head of Development - B2B Container Shipping Platform
Remote / Europe
Senior Full Stack Laravel / Vue Engineer
"Remote / USA"
Full-Stack Developer
Remote / London
Senior Full Stack Software Developer
Madison, WI or Chicago, IL.
Full Stack Developer (Backend heavy)
Hungary, Remote
Laravel / PHP Web Developer
Irving, Texas (Not Remote)
Staff Software Engineer
Remote / Canada (EST/EDT)

If you want to hire Laravel developers, visit LaraJobs and see your job listing here next month.

Laravel Tutorials

Laravel Model Tips

Ashley Allen covers some of his favorite tips for working with Laravel models.

Learn how to create custom Facades in Laravel

If Facades have ever confused you as someone new to Laravel, come along with Paul Redmond and learn how to identify the service behind ANY Facade you might see in the framework.

How to Build Your First PHP Package

If you're new to PHP and want to create a PHP package from scratch, let's dive in and see how it's done!

A Deep Dive into Sessions in Laravel

When building Laravel applications, it's almost guaranteed you'll need to deal with sessions at some point. They are a fundamental part of web development. This article will quickly cover what sessions are, how they work in Laravel, and how you can work with them in your Laravel applications.