PhpStorm 2026.2 Ships a Laravel Tool Window and an Agent Skills Manager

JetBrains latest PhpStorm release adds a dedicated Laravel panel, a FileReference attribute, PHP 8.5 pipe support, and cross-agent skills.

N+1 queries usually get discovered in production. This one setting makes Eloquent throw the moment they happen locally instead.

Storing prices as raw integers works until currency enters the picture. Build a Money value object that makes rounding bugs impossible.

Calling five APIs one after another adds up their latencies. Http::pool() fires them concurrently and waits once.

Pest 5 is here with a test impact analysis engine, an agent verification plugin, evals, and support for PHP 8.4 and PHPUnit 13.

Stop hand-rolling LIKE clauses with percent signs. These built-in query builder methods read cleaner and avoid dialect quirks.

Eager loading the parent relation still triggers a query per child model. chaperone() closes that gap for free.

Build a reliable outbound webhook system in Laravel with signed payloads, exponential backoff retries, and a delivery log.

Laravel's once() helper memoizes a closure's return value for the current request or process — here's when to reach for it.