NEW: Laravel Svelte Starter Kit! (and more Laravel news)

Hello guys, this is a real tweet by Taylor Artwell who tweeted yesterday, sorry for so much shipping today. So Laravel team bombarded the market with various launches small and big and probably the biggest one is Laravel Swvelt starter kit. So out of the blue without any announcement or plans now we have starter kit number four in Laravel 12 which is so in this video I will try to install it and show you how you can do that now in Laravel 12 with Laravel installer and also I will review smaller releases of Laravel team to discuss which ones do you want me to dig into deeper. So starter kit. So first if we try to run Laravel new I like the feature of this warning. I'm using Laravel Hood and here I see the clear instructions of how to update installer. So I cancel this thing. Then I go to her in my top bar and then I go to PHP and then I click update Laravel installer. Then I go back to terminal. Let's clear it up and then I relaunch Laravel new swelt. See new spvelt starter kit. Let's try to install it and see what's under the hood. Both how it looks and what's inside. So same authentication, same past Laravel boost. Yes, I'm not sure if there are any spelt skills or something. We will take a look. Then it asks for Laravel boost stuff. I will just continue with Fortify and default choices. This is irrelevant for this video. NPM install and npm run build. And yeah, this is the result with some warning which I don't really understand to be honest, but let's see if it works. So test familiar Laravel 12 homepage. We go register. We use fake filler Chrome extension to create account and yeah, it's all good. So we have settings, appearance. Yeah, it's all like a typical Laravel 12 starter kit. And with the combination of Laravel, inertia and spelt, it was kind of the missing part of inertia because if we go to inertia homepage, it supports not only Laravel and not only Vue and React. It's kind of a glue layer tying front end and back end together. And in front end, there's Vue, there's React and there's so in the inertia options and we can also find the new information in the documentation of starter kit. So you can see here in the menu item mentioned here. It's not on the official homepage from what I've seen. It's still react view or livewire. Maybe it will come later because it needs well redesign a bit. But in the docs you already can see this. So what we can see here let me zoom in. These are the details. It uses 5 TypeScript tailwind usual stuff and chat cnelt. So similarly how we have chaten view components kind of a port of chaten then we have also now chaten swelt and I was always thinking that smeelt is not that popular in laravel community but judging from these github stars for example eight github stars 8,000 forelt and 9,000 for shaten view it's not that different so it seems there's quite a big community of svelt fans and maybe I should dive deeper into svelt on this channel with Laravel. Let me know in the comments below which topics I should cover. And now let's take a look at the code. So as with every project review, I start with routes. And here we see familiar inertia render. So nothing really about here. If we take a look at package JSON, the dependencies, we have Vit, we have WFinder here. Typical stuff. And here we have check indev dependencies. And in the main dependencies we have vit plug-in inertia like a separate thing and also the main swelt version of 5.16 and lucid swelt for icons if I understand correctly. And if we go down to dashboard component we have dashboard in resources.js pages dashboard where developers should find familiar patterns and components. So yeah, roughly the same framework for starter kits for Laravel and inertia familiar for React and Vue versions. Now really similar things but with SWELt components. What do you guys think? Will you use it if you use Swelt in general? Let's discuss in the comments below. And now also let's discuss a few more topics what Laravel team cooked this week. So another thing announced yesterday was Laravel Nightwatch MCP. So you can chat with cloud code or open code or agent and resolve issues from nightw watch. So I will try it out myself in the near future as I'm user of Laravel nightwatch myself. If I have some interesting bug to fix with cloud code I will try it out also as additional use case for roughly the same thing. Nightw watch and linear now work together. I'm not actually sure if it's a new feature because I haven't used it. Maybe it was previously there in the night watch. Basically, you can not only fix the bugs with Nightw Watch MCP with your AI agents, but also linear issues directly from Nightw Watch issues. Also, there's a new thing in Laravel Cloud specifically for AI agents, which is called markdown for agents. And this is not new in Laravel Cloud. This becomes kind of a new trend. So, this is a tweet by Cloudflare introducing Markdown for agents on Cloudflare with 4,000 likes. And there's a blog article and I will link that in the description below. Also, there's a tweet by Emra, the author of markdown.new specific agent focused markdown format creator with the idea basically to save your tokens because if the agent receives HTML and they need to parse it, then it costs tokens and time. With markdown, it's much easier. And even Frag from Sparty is working on a new package launched tomorrow or maybe it will be launched by the time this video airs. Laravel markdown response will be a new package from Sparty. You can already actually read the docs and dive in. But this is kind of a new trend to return markdown from your website for agent users. And this is another separate tweet on that topic of markdown and agents. This is kind of funny, but it may be actually holding true to some extent. So pricing strategy may be some SAS or websites would adopt free trial for humans but extra pricing if you want to use AI agents to consume the content or the services. This is something to think about. So yeah back to Laravel. Now in Laravel cloud we have the same feature of agents and markdown for agents to be enabled. also released kind of a small details kind of a cute thing but Taylor is pretty emotional about it the button continue with Google on Laravel cloud which seems like a minor feature but if I understand correctly with Laravel cloud being B2B enterprise ready and have different level of security standards similar to like AWS or something it wasn't that easy to introduce that Google signin button again if I understand correctly and then Michael from work OS retweeted that tweet saying that work OS powers that o and work OS is one of the options in Laravel starter kits for authentication. So yeah, if you aren't using work OS just know that they are still around around Laravel ecosystem actively involved. Also there were some updates on Laravel AI probably last week I think. So they keep releasing new versions. So it's 0.1.4 four. Maybe by the time this video airs, there will be more new versions because people keep contributing with better support for different AI agents and providers. So yeah, watch that space for Laravel AI SDK new versions. And also in the same fashion, there's Laravel boost and push back from Laravel team tweeted recently that we should subscribe to releases of Laravel Boost because it is evolving fast as well. new versions, minor versions, new providers, new agents, new models. So yeah, watch Laravel Boost in action as well. And finally, something that I personally have been using the most out of all those new features, radio.lar.cloud. Kind of a funny thing, kind of a side project, but in the past, I was listening to Spotify playlist from Taylor Artwell himself for productivity music in the background. And now we have this website radio Laravel Cloud where you just go on that website, hit play and start working. So there's house music. There are other genres and that's it for me. It worked brilliantly. So yesterday I just launched it and basically forgot about it and forgot that I used to have YouTube or Spotify or even choosing what to play in the background. That did work well for me. So unrelated to core Laravel but probably the best proof that we must ship and this is the best time ever to release stuff. So if you have any idea for side project but didn't have time or didn't have passion I hope these releases by Laravel and others in the community like for example same frag from spite is so back with new packages and versions. I hope that all will inspire you to build new things as well, release them and then you can email me povaslaralaily.com if you want me to review something or share something. If it's worthwhile, I will consider. I have pretty limited time because there are a lot of things to review from Laravel Filament and AI world these days. But yeah, I see it as kind of part of my mission now. So people don't use courses that much. I will still keep releasing courses. So the next one on the list is native PHP mobile but still reviewing off the tools. People I think having hard times to keep up with new things and versions. So this is what I'm going to do on this channel more often in the near future. So what do you think about those new releases? Where do I dive deeper? What questions do you have about them? Let me know in the comments below and see you guys in other