Jess Archer - Laravel Keynote - Laracon AU 2025

In this Laravel Keynote, Jess Archer walks through the growth of the Laravel ecosystem and demos the newest framework features including the redesigned exception page, cache memoization, automatic eager loading and powerful HTTP batching. She also highlights queue and cache failover, updated starter kits and upcoming redesigns to Horizon and Telescope. 📚 ## Chapters 00:16 A year since announcing Laravel Nightwatch and what the team has shipped since 01:00 Laravel company and open source growth: repos, contributors, stars and global team stats 02:02 Community meetup numbers and announcement of Laravel Live Japan 2025 02:58 Kicking off framework updates with a routes file demo 03:21 New exception page for local development: redesigned, detailed debugging and dark mode 05:02 Cache memoisation demonstration and how it prevents repeated cache hits in a request lifecycle 06:49 Automatic eager loading explained and demonstrated with nested N+1 elimination 08:39 How automatic eager loading defers relationship resolution across collections 09:42 HTTP requests: synchronous vs pooling and why batching is powerful 10:54 HTTP batch with before, progress, catch, then and finally hooks, with live demo 12:14 Deferred queue driver demo: jobs run after response is returned 13:30 Combining deferred queues with new queue failover for reliability 14:20 How failover works across drivers and real world use cases like Nightwatch 15:20 Cache failover demonstration with fallback stores and safe degraded performance 17:40 Summary of the demonstrated features and return to slides 17:47 Laravel change log for tracking new features as they ship 18:08 New starter kits for React, Vue and Livewire including TypeScript, Inertia and Flux UI 18:43 Features included in starter kits: auth, dashboards, CI, settings, layouts, dark mode and 2FA 19:48 Refreshing your favourite packages: Horizon and Telescope redesign previews https://x.com/jessarchercodes https://laracon.au