Develop Laravel Feature

Use this skill when building or modifying features in a Laravel 13 monolith using Filament v4 for admin, Livewire 3 for interactive components, and Blade for static rendering.

Stack baseline (2026): Laravel 13, Filament v4, Livewire 3, PHP 8.3+, TailwindCSS v4, Pest PHP v5.

Core Rules

• Thin Controller: Controllers validate (FormRequest) and return views/responses. Business logic goes in app/Actions/ or app/Services/.
• Livewire islands only: Use Livewire for interactive widgets (drawers, modals, dynamic forms). Static pages and listings render with pure Blade.
• DB transactions: Multi-table writes must use DB::transaction().
• Soft deletes: Models referenced by foreign keys should use SoftDeletes.
• FormRequest always: Never validate inside controllers or Livewire components directly — use FormRequest or Livewire #[Validate] attributes.
• Queue for I/O: Email, notifications, and external API calls go through the queue.
• Laravel Reverb: Use Reverb for WebSockets — not Pusher — in new installations.
• Laravel Pulse: Check Pulse dashboard for slow queries, queue failures, and exceptions in dev.

Filament v4 — Schema API (Breaking from v3)