Top Ten Laravel and PHP Finds Friday 20th of February 2026

Описание: Welcome back to another fantastic Friday featuring our Top Ten @laravelphp and @official_php Finds! This week I've read through some great tutorials, watched some great videos that showcase just how much the community are doing right now with Laravel, from tunneling applications to remote development setups and cutting-edge AI integrations.

In 🥇 place this week, @chazza delivers an excellent tutorial on sharing Laravel applications with ngrok. This comprehensive guide demonstrates how to tunnel a complete Laravel app with Inertia, Vite, and Reverb using a clever middleware-based approach that sets up three tunnels and configures everything with just one command - making it incredibly easy to share your local development environment with others. https://t.ly/zGhlV

In 🥈 place this week, @swapnil_bhavsar shares the ultimate solution for developers who want to code seamlessly from anywhere. This complete guide shows how to set up remote Laravel development using Tailscale, Herd, and Mac Studio, allowing you to connect to your home machine while on the move without worrying about syncing changes - perfect for maintaining productivity wherever you are. https://t.ly/Mg7HQ

In 🥉 place this week, @nicodevs presents a fascinating dive into building a document chat system using RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) with the new Laravel AI SDK. This comprehensive tutorial covers everything from vector embeddings with Postgres to creating a real-time streaming chat interface with Livewire 4, showing you how to build an intelligent system that can answer questions about your documents. https://t.ly/GTj0Q

🥇 @chazza - Sharing a Laravel, Inertia & Reverb App with ngrok - https://t.ly/zGhlV
🥈 @swapnil_bhavsar - Remote Laravel Development with Tailscale, Herd & Mac Studio - The Complete Guide - https://t.ly/Mg7HQ
🥉 @nicodevs - Chat with Your Documents: A Practical Guide to RAG Using the New Laravel AI SDK - https://t.ly/GTj0Q
4️⃣ @DCoulbourne - Build an MCP server with Laravel (and use it to publish this post) - https://t.ly/U_3wz
5️⃣ @jclermont - Do Eloquent subqueries work across database connections? - https://t.ly/jyaqJ
6️⃣ @cmellor - I'm Moving From PHPStorm to Zed — Here's How to Set It Up for Laravel - https://t.ly/lqpNt
7️⃣ @laroymike - Talking with Duncan McClean - https://t.ly/DK6m7
8️⃣ @christophrumpel - Laravel AI SDK: I Built a D&D Terminal Game with AI as Dungeon Master - https://t.ly/gHiff
9️⃣ @ericlbarnes - Generate Secure Passphrases in PHP and Laravel (Password Generator Tutorial) - https://t.ly/kcenT
🔟 @enunomaduro - NativePHP: Build Mobile Apps with PHP & Laravel - https://t.ly/Y5dMZ

And thats it for this week, don't forget if you spot a good post during the week let me know about it and if you're going to be at Laravel Manchester or @LaraconEU do come over and say high!

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