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James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · 08/08/2025

Laravel VPS is a new server provider in Forge, that's easy to get started with and provides instantly available servers. From zero to deployed in a minute.

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James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · 08/08/2025

Excited about the next generation of Laravel Forge? So are we! Sign up for the Early Access list at vps.laravel.com

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James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · 08/08/2025

The Laravel Artisan Cheatsheet now displays option default values 🧠 artisan.page

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James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · 06/08/2025

We previously looked into this but an IPv6 only server isn’t useful. Most services still don’t accept only IPv6, which means you can’t do a great deal.

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James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · 06/08/2025

We're similar in design (based on Laravel's design language) but we share no code. We're using Vue, while Cloud uses React for example.

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James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · 06/08/2025

We've been working on this set of updates for just over a year now. There's been a lot of work involved!

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James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · 06/08/2025

Just because you were #1 on HackerNews 😉

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James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · 06/08/2025

I think you're confused with the OSS team lead. Now *he* is a looker!

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James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · 06/08/2025

The new API is cool, the command palette has even more features I could show and we’ve completely revamped domains.

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James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · 06/08/2025

It's all hand-rolled, so we're able to deeply integrate it within Forge!

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James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · 06/08/2025

Yes, but Forge won't have that initially. It's a big change within Forge as a site belongs to one server currently. It's on our roadmap though!

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James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · 06/08/2025

Ah-ha! You and me both, I'd be out of a job 😂

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James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · 06/08/2025

Hetzner is cheaper, but Laravel VPS is built on DigitalOcean, so we provide more regions etc.

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James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · 06/08/2025

Deciding what features to cut for launch 😅

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James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · 06/08/2025

It's Forge-exclusive 😊

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James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · 06/08/2025

Nope, everything is staying the same for now!

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James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · 06/08/2025

Yes! Introducing organizations means a lot of things have changed. As such, we’ll also be releasing a new API. It’s built to be performant, it’s paginated, it’s JSON API spec compliant and has new documentation to go with it.

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James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · 06/08/2025

Curious about the next generation of @laravel.com Forge? Ask your questions 👇

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James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · 05/08/2025

Something we didn't show in the Laracon US keynote is that Forge now keeps a log of when you run recipes. Now, you can see when and what servers a recipe was run on.

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Laravel News @laravelnews.com · 04/08/2025

One minute with @jbrooks.uk at #laracon

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James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · 01/08/2025

I am incredibly proud of the Forge team and all their hard work! Unfortunately, some of the team were unable to join us at Laracon but all played a huge part in making Forge more awesome. Incredible work 👏

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James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · 21/06/2025

Oh boy, what a way to end the week 🚀 I can’t wait for LaraconUS!

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Laravel @laravel.com · 17/06/2025

While you slept, Nightwatch was on guard.

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James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · 17/06/2025

We have some things to share, yeah! 🔨

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James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · 17/06/2025

There’s no two ways about it; Nightwatch is a game-changer 🦸🏻‍♂️ We’ve been using it on Forge for several months, and it immediately found itself as a critical piece of our developer tooling. We hope you enjoy using it as much as we do!

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James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · 14/06/2025

Honestly, the team have been killing it on Forge. I can’t wait to show you all what we’ve been doing 🙌

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James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · 31/05/2025

The way we're doing this is that each Action class has a `handle` method. We use DI to inject the class at a controller level. The `handle` method is essentially grouping logic together in one place. For example, installing a database needs to set state, dispatch a job and broadcast an event.

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James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · 31/05/2025

For the Forge update, we've adopted the Action pattern and it's been incredibly productive for us, allowing us to efficiently refactor old code as we go. Previously, Forge had a massive class of methods (split into traits) that was unwieldily and much harder to test.

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James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · 30/05/2025

Also, we’re using Typescript heavily which with a few super secret internal tools, has been an absolute dream to work with 👀

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James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · 30/05/2025

When we began working on the big Laravel Forge update we teased recently, we had the chance to switch from Vue to React. We stuck with Vue. Our team is very comfortable with Vue 3’s composition API and Inertia 2. But React’s ecosystem, I hear you shouting… we’ve never felt like we’re missing out!

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James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · 11/04/2025

Super glad to hear it, Thore!

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HappyToDev @happytodev.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Hello les devs, depuis hier le n°129 de Quoi de neuf les devs ? est disponible. Vous y retrouverez l'interview de @jbrooks.uk qui est chef de l'équipe d'ingénierie chez Laravel. On y parlera également ✅ Docker, ✅ Linus Unix, ✅ React, ✅ Web3, ✅ IA, ✅ et bien d’autres sujets encore

Affiche du numéro 129 de Quoi de neuf les devs ? avec la photo de James Brook. Couleur : bleu et mauve.

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James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · 10/04/2025

Thanks, Joel! Vapor also has this nice improvement 👌🏻

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James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · 26/02/2025

Postgres and MySQL. SQLite isn't currently supported (it works, but it's ephemeral storage so you'll lose the DB).

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James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · 26/02/2025

Thanks! We're very happy with the launches 🚀

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James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · 24/02/2025

Who's excited about the Laravel Cloud launch today? 🙋‍♂️

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MadeWithLaravel @madewithlaravel.com · 18/02/2025

A bookmarkable, searchable cheatsheet for all artisan commands by @jbrooks.uk 🔖👉️ - madewithlaravel.com/artisan-page

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James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · 23/02/2025

We were busy working on Cachet 3.x in January! I'm incredibly grateful to everyone who has contributed 👏🏻

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James Brooks @jbrooks.uk · 04/02/2025

In @jessarcher.bsky.social's Nightwatch talk she mentioned how we paired Laravel's rate limiting with Cloudflare to completely side step our servers from handling "dead requests" on Forge. Here's how you can do the same thing! james.brooks.page/blog/superch...