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Laravel 13.36 Validation Rules: Fluent Rule:: Builders for Everything (2026)

Laravel 13.36 validation rules: fluent Rule builders illustration

Laravel 13.36’s headline change is validation. You have written ‘required_without:phone’ a hundred times. You have also, at least once, typed ‘require_without:phone’ and only discovered it when a real request hit your endpoint — because validation strings only fail at runtime. Your IDE cannot autocomplete them, your refactoring tools cannot see them, and a comma in … Read more