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Livewire Laravel

What's New in Livewire Tables v2.1-2.4

In just a short month after the successful release of version 2, there have been 4 minor releases with a few cool additions to note.

Anthony Rappa Anthony Rappa

Anthony Rappa

3 min read
9,232 views

Laravel Livewire

Version 2 of Laravel Livewire Tables Released!

After more than 5 months and hundreds and hundreds of hours of work, version 2 of Laravel Livewire Tables is finally a stable release.

Anthony Rappa Anthony Rappa

Anthony Rappa

3 min read
12,236 views

Blade Eloquent Snippets Laravel Series: Laravel Snippets

10 Random Laravel Snippets & Methods, Part 4

I write code blocks down that I know I won't use often and will forget about. Every so often I go through them to refresh my memory.

Anthony Rappa Anthony Rappa

Anthony Rappa

2 min read
4,255 views

Laravel Blade Series: Laravel Snippets

10 Random Laravel Snippets & Methods, Part 3

I write code blocks down that I know I won't use often and will forget about. Every so often I go through them to refresh my memory.

Anthony Rappa Anthony Rappa

Anthony Rappa

2 min read
3,783 views

Alpine Laravel Livewire Tailwind

A sneak peak at Livewire Tables v2

I decided to build version 2 of Livewire Tables from the ground up. I am hundreds of hours in with no end in sight, did I bite off more than I could chew with this one?

Anthony Rappa Anthony Rappa

Anthony Rappa

3 min read
5,222 views

Alpine Snippets Tailwind

Snippet 5: Creating a simple, but cool delete button with Alpine.js and TailwindCSS

Sometimes ideas pop into my head that I don't immediately need, but I think are a good exercise. So I carve out 15 minutes of my day to code an example to learn and save to my library of components for future use.

Anthony Rappa Anthony Rappa

Anthony Rappa

2 min read
88,832 views

Laravel

What's New in Laravel: 8.58 - 8.68

Are you like me and find it impossible to find the time to keep up with the changes in Laravel on a weekly basis? In this series I'll try to roll them up periodically into one post.

Anthony Rappa Anthony Rappa

Anthony Rappa

3 min read
5,640 views

Alpine Tailwind Series: Tailwind CSS Dark Mode

Extending Tailwind CSS dark mode to use system preference

In a previous article, I showed you how to use Tailwind CSS to enable a dark theme on your application. Let's take it one step further and have it prioritize the user's system theme settings first.

Anthony Rappa Anthony Rappa

Anthony Rappa

3 min read
7,703 views

Laravel

Introducing Laravel Authentication Log

Laravel Authentication Log is a package which tracks your user's authentication information such as login/logout time, IP, Browser, Location, etc. as well as sends out notifications via mail, slack, or sms for new devices and failed logins.

Anthony Rappa Anthony Rappa

Anthony Rappa

1 min read
7,652 views

Tailwind Alpine Series: Tailwind CSS Dark Mode

Enabling dark mode in Tailwind CSS

I had never implemented dark mode in Tailwind before, but it was such a breeze I decided to make it even easier for you.

Anthony Rappa Anthony Rappa

Anthony Rappa

5 min read
17,050 views

Laravel Eloquent

Refactoring with Laravel's new whereRelation methods

Prior to this simple PR, we needed verbose closures to do simple queries on relationships. Now it can be done on one line with these simple helpers.

Anthony Rappa Anthony Rappa

Anthony Rappa

1 min read
8,175 views

Laravel Snippets Series: Laravel Snippets

15 Random Laravel Snippets & Methods, Part 2

I write code blocks down that I know I won't use often and will forget about. Every so often I go through them to refresh my memory.

Anthony Rappa Anthony Rappa

Anthony Rappa

2 min read
5,719 views