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Domain‑Driven Feature Architecture in Laravel 13

The article advocates shifting from traditional fat MVC in Laravel to a domain-driven feature architecture (modular monolith style), organizing code around business domains/features instead of technical layers.

Key practical approach: Group related logic (actions, models, services, events) into feature-specific folders/modules using Laravel 13's native tooling, keeping controllers thin and business rules encapsulated.

This reduces complexity for growing apps by making features more independent, testable, and easier to maintain without a full rewrite.

» Read the article

Alpha validation might not be doing what you think

Joel Clermont, in this short video, explains us that the alpha rule has some things to show you probably don’t know.

🚨 Optimize your whereDate() queries

Take the good habbits as soon as possible, you will thank them later. Thank you Punyapal !

Vigilance

Do you need more than Horizon or Telescope for your Laravel queues, jobs, commands and the scheduler ? Maybe you need Vigilance.

What is Vigilance ?

laravel-vigilance is a production-ready, driver-agnostic Laravel package that acts as a full control center for queues, jobs, Artisan commands, and the scheduler — with a built-in Livewire dashboard to view runs (with parameters), retry failures, manually dispatch jobs, and run allowlisted commands.

Why not Horizon or Telescope? I already use them.

Simply because, it goes far beyond Horizon/Telescope by adding whole-app APM (routes, servers, slow queries, etc.), tracing, Real User Monitoring (Core Web Vitals), custom metrics, SLOs, error grouping, incidents/alerting, release health tracking, and even an MCP interface for AI agents — all self-hosted and designed to be safe & lightweight in production (sampling, redaction, separate DB option, zero-impact on request latency).

Take a look at this comparative table 👇

Is it complicated to install/use?

No, installation is straightforward (composer require anousss007/vigilance + php artisan vigilance:install), works with Laravel 12/13, and supports all major queue drivers without extra infrastructure.

Convinced?

If you want to know more about this project, check out the Github page.

Parse for artisans

The promise : turn any document into clean markdown with a simple Laravel package.

It supports PDF, Word .docx .doc), Powerpoint (.pptx .ppt), Excel (xlsx .xls .csv), Email (.eml .msg). More formats are on the way.

But the best part is that with the free tier, you can parse 15K pages per month.

So if you need to parse a lot of documents, maybe Parse for artisans could be a solution to integrate in your backend.

» See the official page

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