James Brooks

James Brooks

Encryption and the in-between

Last year, we introduced a simple but surprisingly useful feature to Laravel Forge: the ability to add notes to servers. While checking the uptake of this feature, we noticed that customers were often storing sensitive data in the field. We…

Forge: Zero Downtime Deployments

We’re thrilled to introduce zero downtime deployments to Laravel Forge, thanks to a seamless first-party integration with Envoyer. Envoyer’s zero downtime deployments ensure you avoid even those brief milliseconds of downtime while the server updates your code.

Forge: Dark Mode

Dark mode is a must-have feature for many developers and anyone who uses it often knows just how jarring it is when you’re thrown into an application or website that doesn’t support it.

Laravel: New “about” Command

Following on from the recently introduced fresh new look for Artisan, we took some time to identify new Artisan commands to further improve the Laravel experience. Another newly introduced command is “about”. This command displays information about your application’s environment.

Deploying Soketi to Laravel Forge

Soketi is a simple, fast and resilient open-source WebSockets server written in Typescript. It’s fully compatible with the Pusher v7 protocol which makes it a great replacement to Pusher when using Laravel Echo.