Twelve years with Laravel: growing alongside a framework
From 2014 to 2026, twelve years with Laravel — a story of maturing with a tool, outgrowing it, and choosing it again.
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Hands-on use of Laravel, Vue, React and other frameworks and libraries.
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From 2014 to 2026, twelve years with Laravel — a story of maturing with a tool, outgrowing it, and choosing it again.
I evaluate the changes in Laravel 12 and how the framework's annual release tempo affects project planning.
A look at Laravel 11's leaner skeleton, the defaults that were removed, and the concrete impact on everyday development workflows.
How to set up asynchronous job queues in Laravel using the database driver, and keep workers running reliably in production with Supervisor.
Laravel 10's type discipline and the new Process facade: how the framework's maturing codebase translates into better day-to-day development.
How Laravel 9's annual release cadence affects project planning, and what PHP 8 compatibility means for your codebase.