Posts tagged ‘laravel-13’

Passkey Authentication in Laravel 13: Setup, HTTPS Requirements, and a Sane Rollout Plan

Laravel 13 ships first-party passkey support. We cover how WebAuthn actually works, why the relying party ID is a one-way door, why staging needs real HTTPS, how to test with virtual authenticators, and a phased rollout plan that won't lock your users out.

Sameh Elhawary · Aug 19, 2026 · 24 min read

Laravel 13 Native Attributes: Slimmer Models and a Cleaner Codebase

Laravel 13 replaces $table, $fillable, and $hidden with native PHP attributes across 15+ framework locations. Here's what changed, real before/after code for models, listeners, and mailables, and a pragmatic plan for migrating a production codebase without drama.

Sameh Elhawary · Aug 17, 2026 · 19 min read

Laravel 13 Native Attributes: Slimmer Models and a Cleaner Codebase

Laravel 13 replaces $table, $fillable, and $hidden with native PHP attributes across 15+ framework locations. Here's what changed, real before/after code for models, listeners, and mailables, and a pragmatic plan for migrating a production codebase without drama.

Sameh Elhawary · Aug 12, 2026 · 19 min read

Laravel Reverb's New Database Driver: Real-Time WebSockets Without Redis

Laravel 13 added a database scaling driver to Reverb, so you can run multi-process WebSockets without Redis. We cover how it works, when to use it, and the full production setup: Supervisor, Nginx TLS, file descriptors, and monitoring.

Sameh Elhawary · Aug 03, 2026 · 20 min read

Laravel 13's First-Party JSON:API Support: Standards-Compliant APIs Without Packages

Laravel 13 ships first-party JSON:API support: resource classes that handle serialization, sparse fieldsets, relationship inclusion, and pagination links automatically. Here's how the new classes work, when to migrate from classic API Resources, and how to run a compliant API in production.

Sameh Elhawary · Aug 02, 2026 · 21 min read

Upgrading to Laravel 13 in Production with Zero Downtime

A production playbook for upgrading to Laravel 13 without downtime: PHP pre-flight checks, Composer strategy, additive migrations, atomic symlink deploys, worker restarts, and a rollback plan that actually works.

Sameh Elhawary · Jul 14, 2026 · 15 min read