The Laravel Podcast

How Taylor Otwell Came Up With Products That Have Earned Him Millions

In this episode of the Laravel Podcast, we revisit a Laravel Snippet from 2019 in which Taylor talks about how he comes up with ideas

00:42:23 19/12/2023

Laravel Pulse, First Party Packages, & the Future of Laravel

In this episode, we're unwrapping the highlights from Laracon AU, with a special focus on Laravel Pulse leading our discussion. Taylor

00:39:02 28/11/2023

Matt & Taylor’s Preferred Tech Stacks for New Laravel Apps

In this jam-packed episode, we dive deep into the world of app development, exploring the essential choices and tools that shape

00:42:24 14/11/2023

A Day in the Life of Taylor Otwell, Managing a Remote Team, Productivity, Regrets, & Marriage

You asked, we answered! In this episode we are addressing your questions! Join us as we explore a typical day in Taylor’s life at

00:45:12 31/10/2023

Volt Breeze, Testing, Traits, & Inheritance

Join us in this episode as we discuss the new Livewire + Volt Functional API stack for Breeze and its capabilities. We also demystify

00:42:09 17/10/2023

Screencasting, Livewire Breeze, Hosting Options, Envoyer, & Pull Requests

New Laravel features are making deployment easier than ever! In our second episode of season six, we explore various topics, screencasting.com

00:30:29 03/10/2023

Welcome back Taylor! Laravel 11, Folio/Volt, PHP, and Final Classes

In our first episode of season six, we welcome back Taylor Otwell as a co-host and talk about all the exciting developments in the

00:44:06 26/09/2023

League CSV (and URI & Period), with Ignace Nyamagana Butera

In this episode we talk with Ignace Nyamagana Butera, a Software Developer, about the PHP League packages that he's created: League

00:47:44 12/08/2022

Pest, with Nuno Maduro

In this episode we talk with Nuno Maduro about the PHP testing framework Pest, a PHP testing framework that focuses on bringing you

00:23:26 24/06/2022

Spatie's Laravel-Backup, with Freek Van der Herten

In this episode we talk with Freek Van der Herten about Spatie's Laravel package Laravel-Backup, which can make a backup of your

00:27:39 10/06/2022

Socialite, Scout & Sail, with Taylor Otwell

In this episode we talk with Taylor Otwell about the first-party Laravel packages Socialite, Scout, and Sail. Socialite is a tool

00:34:25 27/05/2022

Bouncer, with Joseph Silber

In this episode we talk with Joseph Silber about the third-party Laravel package Bouncer, an authorization package which allows the

00:35:05 13/05/2022

Cashier, with Dries Vints

In this episode we talk with Dries Vints about the first-party Laravel package Cashier, which provides an easy, fluent interface

00:30:46 29/04/2022

Sanctum & Passport, with Taylor Otwell

In this episode, we talk with Taylor Otwell about the first-party Laravel auth packages Passport and Sanctum. We discuss the history

00:22:46 15/04/2022

Laravel Debugbar, with Barry vd. Heuvel

In this episode, we talk with Barry vd. Heuvel, creator of Laravel Debugbar. A package provides an overview that allows you to quickly

00:23:09 01/04/2022

Laravel Excel, with Spartner's Arne Schoenmakers & Patrick Brouwers

In this episode, Arne Schoenmakers and Patrick Brouwers talk about Spartner’s popular package, Laravel excel. It is a supercharged,

00:28:07 18/03/2022

Fortify, Breeze, Jetstream, & Spark, with Taylor Otwell

In the first episode of season 5, Taylor Otwell joins us to talk about the packages Fortify, Breeze, Jetstream, and Spark. We discuss

00:27:58 04/03/2022

The Laravel Podcast, Season 5

The Laravel Podcast brings you Laravel and PHP development news and discussion. Season 5 consists of Matt Stauffer interviewing the

00:01:51 11/11/2021

Packages, with Freek Van der Herten & Marcel Pociot

We all use third party packages in our Laravel applications, and even Laravel itself is composed of packages. But how do they work?

01:37:51 13/04/2021

Upgrading, with Jason McCreary

As much as we all wish our apps would just run forever, in reality, they need some tender love and care in order to keep running

00:44:45 30/03/2021

Deploying & Servers, with Chris Fidao

One of the most common questions that the Laravel docs just can't answer for you is "How and where do I deploy my Laravel app?" There

01:00:00 16/03/2021

Queues, with Mohamed Said

Some times events, jobs, and queues can feel a bit overwhelming, and sometimes they can feel so simple it feels like you're doing

00:57:20 02/03/2021

Security, with Rizqi Djamaluddin

It's every application developer's nightmare: your app gets hacked and everyone's private data is out in the open, and it's your

01:24:10 16/02/2021

Helpers & Collections, with Jacob Baker-Kretzmar

Laravel's Collections were popularized by Adam Wathan's book "Refactoring to Collections", but if you haven't read the book you may

01:23:00 02/02/2021

Mail and Notifications, with Wilbur Powery

Laravel has two primary notification systems: Mail and Notifications. What do each do? How do you use them? When should you use one

01:00:48 05/01/2021

APIs, with Jess Archer

We all interact with APIs, even if we don't write them, right? The APIs that power our mobile apps, the APIs we use in our code.

01:35:19 22/12/2020

Storage, with Frank de Jonge

Laravel offers two systems for accessing the filesystem: the File facade and the Storage facade. The Storage facade wraps a package

01:00:14 08/12/2020

Cache, Session, Middleware, & Request, with Samantha Geitz

Some of the most important pieces of Laravel are still those which don't fit neatly into broader categories. In this episode we cover

01:02:11 24/11/2020

The Service Container, with Christoph Rumpel

You may not know it, but the service container — also known as the container, the IOC container, the DI container, or just "the application"

01:11:56 10/11/2020

Tinker, Artisan, & CLI, with Nuno Maduro

While Laravel is a web framework, many of our interactions with our apps—whether when writing them or when using them—happens on

00:51:24 27/10/2020

Testing, with Adam Wathan

Learning how to test your applications can be overwhelming. In this episode, testing master Adam Wathan, author of TailwindCSS and

01:13:14 13/10/2020

Mix, with Jordan Pittman

 Webpack seems to be the brunt of every joke around JavaScript tooling these days, but somehow it still sticks around--probably because

01:05:32 29/09/2020

Presets & Jetstream, with Michael Dyrynda

One of the most powerful tools in creating Laravel apps quickly is how much you can get done in an app that just contains the skeleton

00:58:20 15/09/2020

Authorization and Authentication, with Joseph Silber

If your app has users, it's likely you're going to want to know who they are and what they can--and can't--do. Take a listen to this

01:28:46 01/09/2020

Migrations, Factories, and Seeding, with John Bonaccorsi

Eloquent and the Query Builder allow us to interact with our database, but how do we get those databases in the right shape? How

01:04:47 18/08/2020

Eloquent and the Query Builder, with Jonathan Reinink

Very few Laravel applications don’t have a data store backing them, and the vast majority are backed by a relational database like

01:37:40 04/08/2020

Debugging and Monitoring, with Jonty Behr

Every app has bugs! Learning to debugging your apps is a powerful and vital skill, but we also need to know when the bugs are happening,

00:50:17 21/07/2020

Routing and Blade, with Caleb Porzio

Any web-based application routes all its requests through URL. Laravel’s routing allows you to define URLs, URL patterns, and HTTP

01:48:02 07/07/2020

Local Environment with Valet, Homestead, and Docker, with Chris Brown, Jose Soto, Joe Ferguson

If you're going to work in modern web development, one of the key ingredients is a local development environment that doesn't rely

01:15:59 23/06/2020

Object Oriented Programming, with Alena Holligan

Most modern web applications and frameworks are built on the principles of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP),. Laravel itself is

01:00:15 09/06/2020

Getting Good with Git, with Gemma Anible

Most modern development workflows rely on version control, and most of those use Git. It's easy to follow a quick tutorial and learn

01:29:33 26/05/2020

Intro to Composer, with Jordi Boggiano

As PHP and Laravel programmers, we use Composer every day. But we often don't know its history, nuances, or the plans for the future.In

00:54:26 12/05/2020

Learning & Keeping Up To Date, with Eric Barnes

If you're going to work with Laravel -- or any tech stack -- you need to find the best way to learn it, and then you need to find

00:45:12 28/04/2020

The Ethos of Laravel, with Taylor Otwell

Laravel Podcast Season Four is all about the topics you need to know to work in Laravel.This episode is about The Ethos of

00:49:10 14/04/2020

Introducing Laravel Podcast Season Four

We're back! It's a new season, and a new format: Each episode will bring a guest or guests on to talk about a single topic in the

00:02:53 10/04/2020

Interview: Lalit Vijay, Curator of Laravel Live India and Co-Founder of StyleDotMe

An Interview with Lalit Vijay, Curator of Laravel Live India and Co-Founder ov StyleDotMeLalit

00:38:25 20/03/2019

Interview: Steve Schoger, Famous Designer and Co-Creator Of Lots Of Things

An interview with Steve Schoger, designer and creator or co-creator of many online tools like Tailwind and Refactoring UI and Heroicons

01:11:23 08/02/2019

Interview: Abed Halawi, Tech Lead at Vinelab

An interview with Abed Halawi, Laracon EU speaker and Tech Lead at VinelabAbed

00:52:12 29/08/2018

Interview: Freek Van der Herten, Lead Developer at Spatie

An interview with Freek Van der Herten, lead developer at Spatie.@freekmurze

00:56:49 23/07/2018

Interview: Nuno Maduro, creator of Collision and Laravel Zero

An interview with Nuno Maduro, creator of Collision and Laravel Zero.Nuno Maduro

00:35:06 06/07/2018

Interview: Adam Wathan, co-creator of Tailwind CSS and Laravel educator

An interview with Adam Wathan, co-creator of the Tailwind CSS library and author and video producer.Adamwathan.me

01:10:37 07/06/2018

Interview: Samantha Geitz, Senior Developer at Tighten

Interview with Samantha Geitz, Senior Developer at TightenLogo

00:45:06 22/05/2018

OG Reunion #1

The Season 2 crew reunites.Laracon Venue: The

00:48:32 06/04/2018

Interview: Snipe, AKA Alison Gianotto

An interview with Alison Gianotto / Snipe, creator of Snipe ITSnipe.netSnipe-IT

00:58:56 21/03/2018

Interview: Abigail Otwell, Mrs. Laravel

An interview with Abigail Otwell, wife of Laravel creator Taylor Otwell and co-owner of Laravel LLC.-----Editing sponsored

00:35:58 01/02/2018

Interview: Marcel Pociot, creator of BotMan

An interview with Marcel Pociot, creator of BotMan and co-founder of Beyond Code.Marcel

00:48:08 10/01/2018

Interview: Antonio Ribeiro, package author and master of StackOverflow Laravel

An interview with Antonio Ribeiro, package author and master of StackOverflow Laravel.Rio

00:56:55 14/12/2017

Interview: Jeffrey Way, founder of Laracasts

An interview with Jeffrey Way, the founder of Laracasts.LaracastsTalk

01:11:22 09/11/2017

Interview: Mohamed Said, first employee of Laravel LLC

An interview with Mohamed Said, Laravel's first employee.Laravel News Interview

01:04:59 27/10/2017

Interview: J.T. Grimes, lover of puppies and shaver of ungulates

An interview with Laravel woman around town and lover of puppies J.T. Grimes.SPONSOR: Twilio

01:04:14 12/10/2017

Interview: Neo Ighodaro, co-founder of Laravel Nigeria and CTO at hotels.ng

An interview with Neo Ighodaro, co-founder of Laravel Nigeria and CTO of hotels.ngNotes:Neo's

01:04:17 23/09/2017

Interview: Taylor Otwell, creator of Laravel

An interview with Taylor Otwell, creator of Laravel, about what he did before Laravel and what got him started.Views

00:47:58 12/09/2017

Season 3 Teaser

Introducing season 3: an interview season, where Matt will be conducting long-form interviews

00:06:21 06/09/2017

Episode 53: Bigger & Better

In this episode, the crew talks about enterprise applications, scalability, and productivity.Transcription provided by

00:53:14 28/04/2017

Episode 52: Doug Pro

In this episode, the crew talks about Mix, Dusk, Laracon US, package development using TestBench, GitLab, and more.

00:40:49 08/02/2017

Episode 51: Dusky Christmas

In this episode, the crew discusses Laravel Mix, Markdown mailables, Laravel Dusk, Laravel 5.4, and more.Matt's Learning

00:57:13 23/12/2016

Episode 50: Turkey Day Touch Bar

In this episode, the crew discusses new Apple announcements, the Laracast redesign and improvements, Forge, Laravel 5.3 and 5.4 changes,

00:48:52 21/11/2016

Episode 49: Big Ball Of Yarn

In this episode, the crew discusses PHP 7.1, Laravel Forge, Yarn, Validator improvements, and more.Yarn

00:38:07 17/10/2016

Episode 48: Bing Bong Loves dd()

In this episode, the crew discusses Laracon US & EU, Laravel 5.3, Laravel's first hire, and the heart-wrenching sense of loss

00:37:55 07/09/2016

Episode 47: Musical Routes

The crew talks about where the routes file lives, some tantalizing hints of big new 5.3 features, Jeffrey's 2 sets of 2 hours plan,

00:35:43 16/07/2016

Episode 46: Laracon & Books Jeffrey Hasn't Read

In this episode, the crew talks discusses Laracon, Elixir, Browserify, Webpack, the NBA finals, and Red Rising.Ryan

00:31:43 30/06/2016

Episode 45: Free Parking

In this episode, the crew discusses the releases of Valet and Echo, Laracon US 2016, Laravel 5.3, and their favorite nut.

00:29:27 02/06/2016

Episode 44: I Like The CranApple

In this episode the crew chats about Laravel Elixir, Spark, VAT MOSS, and juice.Setting

00:37:33 11/04/2016

Episode 43: Open Source Money & Rocket League

In this episode, the crew talks about making money from open source and Taylor's utter dominance at Rocket League.

00:28:24 21/03/2016

Episode 42: ActiveRecord & The School Of Zonda

In this episode, the crew is joined by Adam Wathan to discuss ActiveRecord and the Eloquent ORM.Eloquent

00:54:43 24/02/2016

Episode 41: Powerslides & Sparks

In this episode, the crew discusses multiple authentication drivers, Laracon, PJAX, Spark, and Mario Kart rage.Matt's

00:30:58 05/02/2016

Episode 40: Will Smith Hates Vim

In this episode, the crew discusses Linode down time, server migrations, editors, Will Smith, and Mario Kart. Most importantly, Jeffrey

00:37:58 07/01/2016

Episode 39: Updates On All The Things

In this episode, the crew discusses the status and features of Laravel 5.2, Lumen 5.2, and Spark.URLRoutable

00:38:30 11/12/2015

Episode 38: RepositoryBeanFactory

In this episode, the crew talks about architecture, over-architecting, helper functions, facades, crystal ball coding, code preppers,

00:40:24 16/11/2015

Episode 37: I Love The Things You Are Saying

In this episode, the crew discusses front-end tools like Vue, React, and Angular. Matt then discusses scheduled introspection to

00:38:05 02/11/2015

Episode 36: Dev School

In this episode, the crew talks about the challenges of learning to be a developer, developer bootcamps, advice to their former selves,

00:49:22 13/10/2015

Episode 35: Laravel Love Affairs

In this episode, the crew discusses Laracon 2016, new framework features, preferred messaging applications, and Jack McDade possibly

00:38:38 21/09/2015

Episode 34: Jobs & Jawas

In this episode, Matt and Taylor are joined by Ian Landsman of UserScape. Ian is the founder of UserScape, the creator of HelpSpot,

00:36:06 02/09/2015

Episode 33: Post Laracon & Vices

In this episode, the team recaps Laracon, discusses a few of Matt's side projects, and details their juiciest vices.

00:30:28 19/08/2015

Episode 32: Adam Wathan Is Strong

In this episode, the crew discusses simple code, staying focused, Adam vs. The Hulk, and coding music.

00:31:17 06/08/2015

Episode 31: Public Speaking Preppers

In this episode, the crew discusses preparing for conference talks, vacationing, and dreamy destinations!

00:29:00 22/07/2015

Episode 30: Trouble, Trouble, Trouble...

In this episode, the crew discusses architecture driven religious wars and the recent drama surrounding Apple Music.

00:31:32 24/06/2015

Episode 29: PHP, Sublime Text, & Decorative Urns.

In this episode, the crew discusses 20 years of PHP, their favorite PHP features, Sublime Text, PHP Storm, Nintendo, and Jeffrey's

00:35:57 11/06/2015

Episode 28: Documentation, JavaScript, & Conspiracy Theories

In this episode, the crew discusses recent improvements to the Laravel documentation, Vue.js, ECMAScript 6, and a few conspiracy

00:30:55 29/05/2015

Episode 27 - Jeffrey Way: Tau Ceti Murderer

This week the crew discusses new Laravel 5.1 goodies, unit testing, Lifeline for iOS, and which album they would take to a desert

00:28:07 11/05/2015

Episode 26 - Illuminated Tesla Micro-Services

In this episode, the crew discusses the recent release of Lumen, micro-services, Laravel 5.1 event broadcasting, and their favorite

00:25:55 30/04/2015

Episode 25 - Taylor Swift Is A Baller

In this episode, the crew discusses Jeffrey's "Integrated" testing package, Laracon, Laravel "the right way", and Justin Bieber.

00:24:41 15/04/2015

Episode 24 - Dog At The Keyboard

In this episode, the crew discusses PHP 7, Browserify, and their favorite Mac applications.

00:24:16 31/03/2015

Episode 23 - New Beginnings, Envoyer, & Laravel 5.1

The crew discusses the recent release of Envoyer and Laravel 5.0. Taylor gives a preview of Laravel 5.1. Jeffrey discusses current

00:25:19 17/03/2015

Episode 22 - Laravel 5 / Laracon Announcements Live Q&A

Laravel 5 was released and Laracon conferences were just announced! The perfect opportunity for another live question and answer

00:57:07 09/02/2015

Episode 21 - Commands, Pipelines and Packages

Laravel 5 is getting closer to beta and we discuss some upcoming changes as well as get into a discussion about when to use certain

00:52:23 21/01/2015

Episode 20 - The War on CRUD

We talk about configuration and queue updates, architecture and CRUD apps, choosing the right persistence solution, and a lot more.

01:06:36 07/01/2015

Episode 19 - Live Q&A

This is the audio portion of our first live recorded video podcast. We took live question and answer and discussed Laravel 5 release

01:04:49 30/12/2014

Episode 18 - The War over PHP Annotations

In this episode, we discuss new Laravel 5 features including annotated routing and middlewares. We discuss some motivations and guiding

01:08:31 14/10/2014

Episode 17 - Laravel 4.3.. I mean.. Laravel 5!

In this episode, we discuss Laravel 5, the No Capes initiative, Laravel Liferaft, PHP's position in the industry and its culture,

01:00:20 12/09/2014

Episode 16 - Southern Boys Being Polite

Laravel News, Laracon News, Laravel.IO News, PHPSpec, and Southern Boys Being Polite

00:46:49 13/08/2014

Episode 15 - DHH and Haterade

In this episode the cast discusses ActiveRecord (when to use it), discusses some PHP drama relating Laravel to Rails, DHH, Martin

01:09:37 28/05/2014

Episode 14 - DHH and Domain Events

In this episode the cast discusses recent DHH drama, complicated sequences of events, Laracon, Pair-Programming, and ActiveRecord.

01:06:21 07/05/2014

Episode 13 - Cute Tools

Testing, 100% minimum coverage, TDD. The consequences of long-term high-intensity focus. What does PHPSpec have to offer? The battle

01:17:32 29/04/2014

Episode 12 - PHP isn't Java?

Everyone on the show is presenting at Laracon NYC. http://www.decksetapp.com/ for beautiful

01:16:05 21/04/2014

Episode 11 - A/B Testing and Niel Patrick Harris

Is this episode the cast discusses Laracon NYC, Laracon EU, the Laravel package Dispatcher, Hack, DDD, A/B Testing, the next version

00:53:15 01/04/2014

Episode 10 - DDD and NYC

DDD, Facades, Laracon 2014 in NYC. Edited by Mitchell van Wijngaarden

01:03:47 13/02/2014

Episode 9 - Next Laravel Release and Listener Questions

We discuss Laravel 4.2, some recent PHP events, and answer listener questions.

01:06:19 10/01/2014

Episode 8 - LaraEverything

Taylor Otwell and Jeffrey Way join us and talk about what they've been working on. We discuss Laracasts and Laravel 4.1 including

00:51:23 01/11/2013

Episode 7 - CQRS, What is it even?

In this episode we discuss CQRS, how everyone loves Windows 8, building GUI apps with PHP, organizing a conference in 2014 and a

00:55:39 15/10/2013

Episode 6 - Talking Business

In this episode we talk with Dan Syme, creator of Cartalyst, and Ian Landsman, creator of UserScape about business and the open-source

01:09:33 06/10/2013

Episode 5 - Laracon and Actionscript

In this episode Shawn McCool discusses Laracon, OOP, ActionScript and Chris' new Laravel 4 practical implementations book.

00:51:29 07/09/2013

Episode 4 - War Stories

In this episode Shawn McCool, Taylor Otwell, and Matthew Machuga discuss the upcoming Laravel conference in Amsterdam, code-base

00:59:53 24/08/2013

Episode 3 - Packages

In this episode, Laravel author Taylor Otwell discusses packages with his teammate / backbone-ninja Eric Barnes and Laravel community

00:45:37 14/08/2013

Episode 2 - Testing Testing Testing

In this episode Shawn McCool, Taylor Otwell and Jeffrey Way discuss Laracon, architecture, testing and more. Enjoy!

00:51:08 04/08/2013

Episode 1 - Hello World

In this first episode we're joined by Taylor Otwell, the creator of Laravel to discuss Laravel 4, and Shawn McCool to discuss Laracon

00:53:28 23/05/2013