Jason McCreary - Ship faster with Blueprint - Laracon AU 2025

See how Jason McCreary’s Blueprint turns a tiny YAML “draft” into full Laravel scaffolding - models, migrations, controllers, views, and even realistic tests – so you can move from laravel new to a working app in minutes. He demos Blueprint’s conventions, shorthands, configuration, and support for existing projects, then shows how it fits alongside AI and Boost to help you ship Laravel applications faster and with confidence. 📖 ## Chapters 00:00 Walk-on, music, and emcee intro 00:34 Jason introduces himself and Blueprint’s goal: “ship faster with Blueprint” 01:20 Origin story: conceiving Blueprint on the 24-hour flight to his first Laracon AU 02:00 The Laravel “ship” theme and the gap between laravel new and real scaffolding 03:50 Demo: php artisan make:model -a --test and its limitations as mostly stubs 06:30 Looking at schema-driven generators and Rails inspiration; the missing piece 07:40 First Blueprint demo: blueprint:build generates rich migrations, models, controllers, events, jobs, mailables, views, and tests 09:40 Generated tests: HTTP tests with factories, validation checks, DB assertions, faked facades, and 100% coverage on the scaffolded code 11:10 Why YAML: human-readable draft file, models and controllers sections, using existing Laravel datatypes 13:30 Building a Conference model: relationships, foreign keys, conventions, and shorthands like softDeletes 17:20 Controller shorthands: resource, web vs API controllers, and automatic route registration 20:20 Recommended workflow: treat the draft as a scratch pad, Blueprint as a passive generator, then edit the generated code 21:10 Publishing config and swapping generators (e.g. Pest instead of PHPUnit, plus community generators for Nova, Filament, Tall forms, Flux) 23:00 trace command: letting Blueprint inspect existing models so you can use it beyond greenfield apps 23:55 Blueprint vs AI: using Blueprint for deterministic scaffolding and Boost + AI for complex custom code 25:16 Wrap-up, invitation to chat about Blueprint/Shift/Laravel and mention of his next project, Fast Laravel https://x.com/gonedark https://laracon.au