
Matt Stauffer
CEO Tighten, where we write Laravel and more w/some of the best devs alive. "Worst twerker ever, best Dad ever" –My daughter
Appears in 113 Episodes
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 for authenticating users with other l...

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 user to quickly create and manage r...

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 to Stripe's subscription billing servi...

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 of how they came to be, their diff...

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 & easily see what’s going on ins...

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, simple way to export and import pow...

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 the differences between each one ...

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 creators of the most popular packag...

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? How do you pick the best packages? ...

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 smoothly and safely. That means we nee...

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 are a ton of options, but a few r...

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 it wrong.Mohamed Said is not just the...

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 fault.Thankfully, Laravel and the tool...

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 be left wondering exactly what they...

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 or the other? Active community memb...

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. But Jess Archer wants you to know ther...

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 called "Flysystem", and in this epi...

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 those and somehow even manage to ...

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" — is that the core of ever...

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 the command line. In this episode, Lar...

Testing, with Adam Wathan
Learning how to test your applications can be overwhelming. In this episode, testing master Adam Wathan, author of TailwindCSS and host of Full Stack Radio, joins us i...

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 it's the most powerful tool we'...

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 scaffold Laravel comes with. The...

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 introduction to the two "auth"'s, ...

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 do we define their schema, their sampl...

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 MySQL. Laravel’s built-in tooling fo...

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, so pair that with good monitor...

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 Verbs to match you users’ incoming r...

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 on anything but your local machine t...

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 object-oriented.But many of us learn a...
