Laravel Livewire Blade Alpine

Creating a Filepond component using Blade, Livewire, & Alpine.js. Then validating & storing with Spatie Media Library

Let's create a Blade component that uses the Filepond library with Alpine.js, sends it to the server with Livewire, and saves it with Spatie Media Library.

Community Laravel Livewire Broadcasting

Laravel Batches and real-time progress with Livewire

Upload files using Laravel Echo, Livewire, and Laravel Batch Jobs

Community Laravel Broadcasting

Laravel Real-Time Notifications

In this post, we will take a look at how we can send real-time notifications with Laravel, the Laravel Websockets package, and Laravel Echo.

Laravel Blade

Using the @forelse blade directive

Use this nifty blade directive in place of a foreach inside an if/else.

Laravel Validation

Nullable vs. Sometimes

The more fields you are validating, the more chance you don't actually need all of them to process what you're doing.

Laravel Livewire

Laravel Boilerplate 7.0

Laravel Boilerplate provides you with a massive head start on any size web application.

Community Laravel Eloquent

Ordering database queries by relationship columns in Laravel

In this article we're going to explore how to order database queries by the value (column) of an Eloquent relationship.

Community Laravel Eloquent

Dynamic relationships in Laravel using subqueries

Use subqueries in Laravel to optimize your database selects.

Laravel Validation

Laravel Validation 101, Controllers, Form Requests, & Rules

A core part of any project is understanding how to validate the incoming request from your users.

Community Laravel

Everything I Ever Needed To Know About Web Dev, I Learned From My Twitter Timeline

Colin DeCarlo gives his talk on some ideas on cleaning up code in your application gained from "fire tweets" on twitter.

Community Laravel

Some Shifty Bits

Jason McCreary, creator of Laravel Shift, gives his talk on the parts of Laravel that are under-used. He explains how these pieces of the framework can make your code and your apps faster.

Community Laravel Eloquent

Giving collections a voice

I gave a talk on this topic at LaraconAU, 2019. It covers all the ways custom collections can improve your systems design and contains some more guidance on when you would reach for this pattern.