A humorous presentation about Statamic, a flat-file CMS built on Laravel. The speaker, who lost their voice, delivers the talk in a movie trailer voice-over style, highlighting Statamic's key features, upcoming Version 3 release, and its simple pricing model of $199 per site with direct support included.

Nuno Maduro presents upcoming features in Pest PHP 2.9, a popular PHP testing framework. He demonstrates new capabilities including snapshot testing for comparing full responses, describe blocks for better test organization, architectural testing improvements, type coverage analysis, and a new drift plugin that automatically migrates PHP Unit tests to Pest PHP. The talk focuses on how these features make testing simpler and more elegant while maintaining full compatibility with existing PHP Unit tests.

Nuno Maduro presents the upcoming features in Pest PHP v3, the popular PHP testing framework. He introduces three major new features: task management for organizing test todos and GitHub issues within tests, architectural presets for ensuring code consistency, and mutation testing for measuring test quality beyond code coverage. The talk includes live demonstrations of each feature and concludes with the announcement that Pest v3 will have zero breaking changes and that his project Pinkery is being open-sourced.

Freek Van der Herten from Spatie presents 10 lesser-known but useful Laravel packages from Spatie's collection of over 350 open source packages. He demonstrates practical use cases for packages including Laravel Horizon Watcher, Laravel Remote, Laravel Support Bubble, Laravel Response Cache, Laravel Query Builder, Laravel Login Link, Laravel PDF and others. The talk highlights how these 'hidden gems' can improve developer workflow and application functionality.

Taylor Otwell delivered a keynote at LaraconUS detailing major developments in the Laravel ecosystem. He announced several new framework features including deferred functions, container attributes, and chaperoned models. The talk culminated in unveiling Laravel Cloud, a new fully-managed platform for deploying Laravel applications that aims to simplify the deployment process to under one minute, complete with serverless PostgreSQL databases and automatic scaling capabilities.

Nuno presents Pest, an elegant PHP testing framework built on top of PHPUnit. The talk demonstrates how Pest simplifies testing syntax, reduces boilerplate code, and provides a more user-friendly experience through features like higher-order tests, datasets, and improved test coverage reporting. The framework maintains compatibility with existing PHPUnit tests while offering a more modern and concise testing API.

This talk explores PHP parsing using the PHP-Parser library. The speaker demonstrates how to parse PHP code into an abstract syntax tree (AST), manipulate the AST, and transform it back into PHP code. Through practical examples, he shows how to modify strings, remove dump statements, and wrap echo statements in function calls - techniques that are used in tools like Laravel Tinker Well.

Taylor Otwell presents upcoming features in Laravel 11, focusing on a simplified application structure with reduced boilerplate files and improved developer experience. He also announces Laravel Herd Pro with debugging features, Herd for Windows, and Laravel Reverb - a new websocket server. The talk emphasizes Laravel's continued evolution toward a more streamlined, modern framework while maintaining backward compatibility.

Luke Downing presents a comprehensive overview of Pest PHP testing framework, demonstrating its key features like higher order tests, data sets, and expectations API. He showcases these features by building tests for a demo Laravel application called ParrotCon, explaining how Pest simplifies testing while maintaining elegance and expressiveness compared to PHPUnit.

Marcel, CTO at Beyond Code, demonstrates how to build interactive CLI applications using PHP and Laravel Zero. The talk includes a live coding session where he builds a CLI todo app with features like checkboxes, interactive menus, and task management. He also previews an innovative way to distribute PHP CLI apps as standalone executables that don't require PHP installation on the target machine.

Nuno presents Pest, an elegant PHP testing framework built on top of PHPUnit. The talk demonstrates how Pest simplifies testing syntax, reduces boilerplate code, and provides a more user-friendly experience through features like higher-order tests, datasets, and improved test coverage reporting. The framework maintains compatibility with existing PHPUnit tests while offering a more modern and concise testing API.

Nuno presents Pest, an elegant PHP testing framework built on top of PHPUnit. The talk demonstrates how Pest simplifies testing syntax, reduces boilerplate code, and provides a more user-friendly experience through features like higher-order tests, datasets, and improved test coverage reporting. The framework maintains compatibility with existing PHPUnit tests while offering a more modern and concise testing API.

Taylor Otwell presents upcoming features in Laravel 11, focusing on a simplified application structure with reduced boilerplate files and improved developer experience. He also announces Laravel Herd Pro with debugging features, Herd for Windows, and Laravel Reverb - a new websocket server. The talk emphasizes Laravel's continued evolution toward a more streamlined, modern framework while maintaining backward compatibility.

Freek Van der Herten presents his 10th consecutive Laracon talk, showcasing 10 lesser-known but useful Laravel packages from Spatie's collection of over 300 packages. He demonstrates practical applications of packages including Laravel Horizon Watcher, Laravel Remote, Support Bubble, Slack Alerts, Query Builder, Login Link, Laravel Steps, Blade Comments, Laravel PDF, and Schedule Monitor. The talk highlights how these packages solve common development challenges and improve developer experience.

A talk about Git version control, focusing on the speaker's journey from being afraid of Git commands to becoming proficient with advanced features. The speaker shares experiences working at different companies and explains core Git concepts like storage, branches, merging, and rebasing while demonstrating practical examples through a command-line demo.

James Brooks presents a talk on documenting Laravel APIs using Scribe, demonstrating how to automatically generate comprehensive API documentation directly from code annotations and comments. He shows how to group endpoints, add request/response examples, handle authentication documentation, and discusses hosting options including using bump.sh for enhanced documentation features.