After years of iteration, this is the project structure I reach for on every new Laravel app. Actions, services, form requests, and Pest tests. All of it.
Every year someone declares PHP dead and Laravel irrelevant. Every year I start another Laravel project. Here's why I'm not switching.
I grew up in Kansas, discovered the web in the late 2000s, and somehow ended up writing code full-time in Florida. This is that story.
After 15 years of building things with PHP and Laravel (with two podcasts and a YouTube channel on the way), I figured it was time to start writing things down. Here's why.