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Hey Livewire folks, Got a few quick updates for ya. First, Flux Pro (the official Livewire UI component library) is 40% off for Black Friday 🎉 ​ ​ Grab the Unlimited package for an all-time-low price of $149 → ​ This week alone we've shipped five new components: ​ Slider ・ AI Prompt ・ OTP Input ・ Skeleton loader ・ Kanban ​ I think that puts us at something like 50 full components at this point; 25 free, 25 pro. Whew 😌 In other news, we've been polishing and documenting the Livewire 4 beta release. If you haven't tried it yet, it's pretty stable and pretty fun! Feel free to give it a go. ​ Check out the Livewire 4 upgrade guide → ​ Full release should be out within the next couple months 👊 Happy Turkey, –Caleb Unsubscribe | Update your profile | 113 Cherry St #92768, Seattle, WA 98104-2205

Hey everyone 👋, Whew, what a hustle the last few weeks have been. Between running a conference, giving a keynote, tagging Livewire 4 beta, and writing all new documentation, I've been...busy. ⚡ Wire:Live 2025 For starters, thanks to everyone who came out to my home town for Wire:Live. It was a smash hit and went way beyond my expectations. So many Livewire die-hards showed up to hang out, watch talks, and hack on cool stuff together. I've never been more grateful for this wonderful community ❤️ ​ If you couldn't make it, we published all the talks from the day for free on YouTube: ​ ​ Go watch the talks from conference day → ​ 🚀 Livewire 4 beta release Since the conference, we've released a beta of Livewire 4 and fully documented all the new features and the upgrade path for you. So far things seem surprisingly stable which means we're not far from tagging a full release. if you've wanted to play with some of the new features li...

Heyyyyy, We're hard at work on the Livewire 4 beta over here at HQ. I spent the week rewriting Livewire's entire component resolution system so that it works beautifully with the new single/multi-file components but is completely backwards compatible with normal class-based components. While I was at it, I decided to add a new namespace system to Livewire components: ​ This way, people with more modular app structures will be able to organize their components accordingly. This is just one of the many things I've wanted for Livewire and am finally taking the time to implement. My next task is making sure slots and islands are as bulletproof as possible . Wish me luck 🙏 🎁 Good stuff coming to v3 While we've been working on v4, we've made tons of reliability improvements and bug fixes that we realized shouldn't be held up for v4. My right-hand-man, Josh Hanley, is currently back-porting all those improvements and will be tagging a ...

Heyyyyy, Wire:live—the first-ever chill and awesome Livewire mini-conference—is officially happening!!! → Check out the event and grab your ticket at wire:live.com ​ The basics It will be hosted by myself and my friends at Thunk (a killer agency run by incredibly smart folks that specializes in Livewire development). 📍 Where: Buffalo, NY (my hometown) 📅 When: Two days — one full of talks, one for hacking & hanging Day One — Talks, food, hanging out Handful of 10-minute "hot tip" talks Some normal-length conference talks Capped off with a keynote by me (Caleb) where I'll show off all the new developments in Livewire 4 and tag a beta release on stage Day Two — Hack & Hang Bring your laptop and a project/idea/bug/whatever. We'll spend the day: Co-working Solving problems as a group Bonus fun/challenges sprinkled in The real goal: relationship-building and a chance to ask Livewire experts questions, brainsto...

Hey folks! Laracon 2025 is in the books. I'm still coming down from a week of non-stop hand-shakes, hugs, and boxed lunches. Wew, what a ride! I'm sitting at a quiet and empty gate in the Denver airport reflecting on things before I board my flight home and just wanted to reach out and send you a few words and a link to my talk. If you didn't catch it live, my demo of Livewire 4 is up on YouTube here: ​ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM0glP77tsA&t=19625s ​ I tried to make it as punchy and entertaining as possible. Give it a watch. Also, here's a nice little recap tweet from the community: Steve Bauman @ste_bau Laravel Livewire v4 was demo'ed today at Laracon with some huge improvements! Here's what @calebporzio dropped this year 👇 10:26 PM • Jul 30, 2025 34 Retweets 275 Likes Read 6 replies ​ I put far more effort into this talk than I hoped to (lol), and I hope it comes through. Now that it...

Yoooo. Caleb (creator of Livewire) here, I've been in a hole for the past few months dreaming up the future of Livewire and am going to show it to you all on stage at Laracon US in four days. I can not express how pumped I am. Livewire version 3 was a big step forward for Livewire. It was a complete rewrite of the framework. It took me almost two years to build. We've come a long way since then. When it was released (at Laracon 2023), there were 26k daily composer installs. Now, there are 85k ! As great as Livewire is right now, there are two problems that keep me up at night: People are confused and frustrated by having too many options when it comes to component structure (Traditional class-based, Volt class-based, and Volt functional). Livewire allows you to build an app in record speed, but if you don't know some of the ins and outs, you can end up with pages that feel slow and laggy. These two points are my problem statement for Livewire versio...