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Livewire 4 updates + Wire:live speaker lineup

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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 ...
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The first-ever Livewire conference (and a 4.0 beta release!)

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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...
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Livewire 4 demo + Laracon recap

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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...
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The past and future of Livewire

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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...
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WebP file support? Done. ✅

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You can now edit WebP files directly on remove.bg ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌      ͏ ‌   ...
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