The Midwest Artisan

In this episode of Midwest Artisan, we discuss Laravel Nightwatch, Instantiating a class via constructor property promotion, DTOs, and practical AI features in Laravel apps.

Nightwatch QA with Matt Staufer: https://laravelpodcast.com/episodes/laracon-au-update-nightwatch-q-a
Instantiating a class via constructor property promotion: https://travisnorthcutt.com/til/php-constructor-property-promotion/

• (00:00) - - Intro
  


• (00:05) - - Nightwatch
  


• (09:09) - - Instantiating a class via constructor property promotion
  


• (17:54) - - DTOs: Good? Bad? Ugly?
  


• (27:56) - - API Resources vs DTOs
  


• (33:53) - - Do you use Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor?
  


• (41:07) - - Dalton adding AI to Laravel projects
  


• (44:55) - - What’s a practical AI usage for clients?
  


• (56:30) - - Outro