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Livewire 4 is hereeeeee!

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Today's the day! 🎉 It's been 10 months of work and years of dreaming, but Livewire 4 is finally here. ⚡⚡⚡ In the words of Ian Landsman, "I feel like Livewire 4 settles all family business 🚬" It's true, this release addresses so many papercuts and limitations I've wanted to break through for so long. There are heaps of new features of course, but just know that those are the tip of the iceberg . Huge portions of the deep internals of Livewire have been completely rewritten to be way smarter, more performant, and more flexible. Here's your roadmap to diving into v4: Step 1: Watch my YouTube video Check out this 5-minute YouTube video of me demoing a Livewire 4 app: ​ Step 2: Read the announcement post Here's a blog post highlighting all the new features to give you a good overview of what's going on: ​ Laravel News: Everything new in Livewire 4 → ​ Step 3: Watch the Laracasts series There's a brand new Laracasts s...

Livewire 4 comes out next week!

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Yoooo...Caleb here, Livewire 4 is getting too good to stay in beta. Next week Wednesday we're going to drop the full release with a Laracasts series to celebrate 🎉 To tease you, I just recorded a video of a new feature I added this week that makes animations in Livewire unbelievably simple and powerful. ​ The release just keeps getting better and better and I now feel bad for anyone on v3 lol. (Psst... all the new stuff is in today's beta release) V4 docs: https://livewire.laravel.com/docs/4.x/quickstart ​ See ya next week! -Caleb ​ Unsubscribe | Update your profile | 600 1st Ave, Ste 330 PMB 92768, Seattle, WA 98104-2246

Flux is 40% off for Black Friday!

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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

Livewire 4 beta release + Wire:Live conference videos

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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...

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 ...

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...

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...