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title: 'Laracon US 2026: My Top 3 Open-Source Highlights'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=Cvhuw8g0JGw'
video_id: 'Cvhuw8g0JGw'
date: 2026-08-14
duration_sec: 612
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# Laracon US 2026: My Top 3 Open-Source Highlights

> Source: [Laracon US 2026: My Top 3 Open-Source Highlights](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Cvhuw8g0JGw)

## Summary

The video covers the creator's personal highlights from Laracon US 2026, focusing on three key open-source announcements: Laravel LSP, Pint's Blade support, and Artisan Doctor. It also showcases a demo of a PHP game built with AI and deployed on Laravel Cloud.

### Key Points

- **Laravel LSP** [00:54] — Laravel LSP brings VS Code-like functionality to other editors like Sublime, Cursor, Neovim, and OpenCode, offering autocomplete and clickable navigation.
- **Pint's Blade Support** [02:02] — Laravel Pint now supports Blade templates, improving readability with rules like breaking long lines and adding spacing.
- **Artisan Doctor** [03:59] — Artisan Doctor is a new package for checking Laravel project health, including .env, application key, time zones, and composer audit.
- **Laravel Cloud MySQL** [05:49] — Laravel Cloud now supports MySQL with scale-to-zero, allowing databases to sleep when idle and wake on demand.
- **AI Business Tycoon Game** [06:18] — The creator built a PHP game called AI Business Tycoon using AI (GPT-5.6 Luna) and deployed it on Laravel Cloud, showcasing a 50,000-line codebase.

## Transcript

Hello guys, greetings from Boston where I attended Laracon US 2026 and from my hotel I decided to shoot this quick video about my personal highlights about what was announced from stage in open source and around open source of Laravel.
So I've picked three of my favorites to show you and number three was not even announced on stage but it is in this article and everything we announced at Laracon US which I will link in the description below.
And also at the end of this video, I will show you a game, PHP game, that I vibe-coded while flying to Laracon US and in my downtime, which I deployed on Laravel Cloud, and I will show you that at the end of this video, so stay tuned.
Now let's see three of my favorite things from Laracon. The first thing is Laravel LSP. Here's a tweet by Dan Johnson, and this was how it was presented on stage by Taylor.
basically it allows the same functionality as VS Code extension in well other editors. So Dan Johnson is happy as a Z editor user but also Paul Redmond is happy as Neogrim user and this is powered by this new package
level LSP and you can see the list of editors here so sublime that VS Code was always on the list and then cursor and then Neogrim and even OpenCode. So
Basically, you get autocomplete and clickability of everything that is in this list. Very, very exciting. I remember the times when people were waiting passionately for VS Code extension,
and VS Code is out for quite a while. And I actually am proud that Titus Galeus is working at Laravel, but he's Lithuanian as I am, so kind of a Lithuanian footprint in the core of Laravel.
So I'm kind of silently proud of that. Anyway, if you're using one of those editors mentioned below, you have to be more happy. Side note, with that extension, for example, it's not officially released yet on the marketplace,
so just check the documentation, check the instructions how to get it. The second thing I'm excited about is in Laravel Pint, now it supports Blade. So historically it didn't reformat Blade, and Blade is kind of a mess sometimes,
So let's see, I will try it out in this video in kind of live mode. So in the source code of my website AI Coding Daily, I have Laravel Pint with a bit older version. So version 1 is what supports Blade and let try to do composer update and run it So composer update specifically package of Laravel pint Now it goes to 130
And now when following the documentation running pint, I will do test. So vendor bin pint test. What will add blade at the end? To be honest, I'm running that for the first time. So I'm not sure what will be the result, whether it even works and how bad is my blade code.
but let's find out together. Okay I need to install a few npm dependencies. Okay I'm fine with that. Let's do it. And now what do we have? A lot of blade files are marked as failure but without
more details. And also the model and controller. So maybe I haven't run plant for a while in this project. I don't even remember actually. And I think we can run it with verbose flap with dash v. so it will show more details from what I remember.
Oh yeah, right. So this is, for example, one of the changes. Instead of one line long link, it suggests something like this. Makes perfect sense. Then here it adds space at the end of SVG.
Okay, what else? Text with paragraph on a separate line. Okay, that is more readable. So basically a lot of rules about readability of blade files. So yep, it works. And the third thing that got my interest wasn't even announced on the stage of LaraCon US,
but it is in the article in the official blog. Did you know that there is a thing called Artisan Doctor, a new package. So Artisan Doctor is a package for Laravel Doctor actually, for checking basically the health of your Laravel project.
Let's install it together in the same project and let's see what it's actually checking and whether I will have some errors in the same project. So, Composer RequireLarival Doctor, it's version 0.1, so early days, probably it will be improved over the months, and let's clear, and let's run that doctor with command, php-artisan-doctor, obviously.
So, we'll go php-artisan-doctor, and it will do what? So, it will check .env, application key, time zones, and stuff like that, so quite a big list, and it got something to tell me.
So composer audit. As a part of that doctor thing it runs composer audit and we have four security issues. Also notices Okay so this is not like errors or something but just in case it informs me that I have cached views here and queue jobs something here So yeah this is just advice like don forget to run scheduler and a few more related things
But what are those security things? Let's run composer audit separately. So composer audit and it's Guzzle. So Guzzle version 7 has something reported pretty recently on July 20th, so 10 days ago.
So yeah, I probably do need to upgrade Guzzle, and from what I remember, there was version 8 recently released, so major version of Guzzle, so I will just take a look at that separately after that video. But yeah, this is PHP Artisan Doctor, so you can run it manually, or probably instruct your AI agent to run it periodically, or something like that.
So yeah, these are three things that caught my attention in the open source releases of Laracon, but also what I want to show you is on Laravel Cloud, now they have MySQL as part of scale to zero, which means that MySQL goes to sleep if your app is not active, if
your database is not triggered, and I tried it out with my new application, new game I wrote in PHP, or in fact, I vibe coded, but here's my tweet about it that vibe coded in
the weekend in my case it was on a flight in a hotel room while waiting so I was kind of burning tokens along the way but it was 86 commits it was far from one shot and on the conference during
one of the talks I actually deployed it to Laravel cloud with my SQL database and as you can see it is sleeping for 13 hours because I haven't touched that game I haven't visited it since then and now
Let me show you the game and maybe you will be interested in that. That game is the URL AI Software or AI Business Tycoon. So in my teenage years, I was a fan of tycoons, business tycoons like business management systems,
city management systems like theme park tycoons and there were various types of tycoons. So I thought, why don't I build my own tycoon but for AI software? So how it works, you start a company and you make decisions.
you have 24 months to get to profitability. You have 100K in cash at first. Here are some instructions. And then you select, for example, build a feature, set a marketing budget and two actions per month.
Then you submit them and then go to second month, do more decisions hire an engineer for example or invest in automated testing So then your cash goes down but MRR goes up and from time to time you have to make also decisions like customer hallucination complaint
about your AI model. Here, this is kind of a fun game alpha version. I vibe-coded in a sense that I didn't review code as much. I didn't have time for that at the conference, and it was actually
mostly built by GPT-5.6 Luna model on high effort level, which is, in my opinion, currently the best value for money if you want to build something pretty simple, but the plan and the review was
made by GPT-5.6 Sol high effort as well. So, plan with more expensive model, and then you can afford to implement with cheaper model. So, yeah, you may play that game already. Now, AI Business
tycoon-liarable-cloud, again alpha version, but with that, like give me feedback, just email me back, here's a contact page with my email, or just put a comment on this video, and I will also shoot
separate videos about the code base of that project, so one of the ideas was to have some kind of bigger code base, this code base is like 50,000 lines of code, majority of them being PHP, not even Laravel, this is Laravel and Livewire on the front end, but PHP game engine is like the
core of that thing which is huge in terms of various events that could happen during the game so yeah i will shoot separate videos on that but if we get back to laracon announcements i'm excited that larable cloud now supports mysql which is now awake in my case for three minutes so at the end
of the month i will be excited to see what's on invoice is it still on my starter plan within $5 and again I will probably shoot a separate video about my next Laravel cloud invoice which
kind of becomes a monthly tradition. So yeah, zero to fail now also supports not only PostgreSQL but MySQL. And then also I'm excited about Pest version 5 which was the very first stock of Laracon and I
will review Pest in a separate video. This will take too long so I don't have enough time here in my hotel, so after get back I will test it out and shoot either one longer video or even a
series of videos, because PestFab has a lot to show in the new version. So yeah, these are my short highlights from Laracon US from what was announced. If you were at the conference or if you watched their live stream, what were your personal highlights or favorite things or maybe
things that you expected but were not announced, let's discuss all of that in the comments below. That's it for this time and see you guys in other videos.