DevOps With Laravel: Dockerizing a Laravel application

In this article, I'm going to show you how to dockerize an application that has the following components.

Laravel Docker

Everything You Can Test In Your Laravel Application

A common challenge in testing is not only HOW to test something, but WHAT you can test. That's why I have made a list of all the things I like to test in my applications.

Laravel

Define Casts in a Query

Laravel has Eloquent attribute and custom casting. But did you know about query-time casting? It's documented in Laravel, and illustrated beautifully by Aaron Francis.

Eloquent Laravel

Refactoring conditionals to callables in PHP

Recently, I came across a very handy tip by Nuno Maduro where you can refactor some of the conditionals in your code to callables to make your code more elegant and readable.

Laravel Vanilla PHP

Upcoming Livewire v3 Features and Changes

Last Wednesday at Laracon Online, Caleb Porzio gave a talk called "The Future of Livewire" demoing all the new features planned for Livewire v3. In this article, we'll go over those features again in case you missed the talk or want a second look.

Livewire

SDKs, The Laravel Way

Each call to the builder will modify the underlying pending request. Every modification, another link in the chain, that will be sent, finally, with get().

Laravel

Awesome Livewire

A curated list of Livewire resources.

Livewire

Multi-Input Sorcery And Other Laravel Livewire Tips

Daniel Coulbourne shares some cool Livewire insights.

Livewire Laravel

[8.x] Adds a simple where helper for querying relations

Creates the whereRelation() and orWhereRelation() helpers, and whereMorphRelation() and orWhereMorphRelation() for morph relations.

Eloquent Laravel

A lightweight Laravel package to track changes over time

The Spatie team has released a new package called spatie/laravel-stats. This package is a lightweight solution for summarizing changes in your database over time.

Laravel

Getting started with Laravel Spotlight

Use a Mac-ish Spotlight command pallette on your apps built with Livewire.

Livewire Laravel

Laravel Batches and real-time progress with Livewire

Learn how to process incoming files using job batches, Laravel Echo, Laravel Livewire, Pusher, all in real time with a surprise ending.

Alpine Blade Livewire Laravel Tailwind

Defining Default Password Validation Rules in Laravel

In Laravel 8.43, the Password Validation Rule Object now supports the ability to define default password rules you can use across your application.

Laravel

Find N+1 problems instantly by disabling lazy loading

In the next release of Laravel 8, you can strictly disable lazy loading entirely, resulting in an exception.

Laravel

DOM Events Visualizer

Learn about the DOM Event system through exploration.

Javascript

Laravel Octane v1.0 is Here

The Laravel team has been hard at work on Laravel Octane, a tool to supercharge your Laravel application's performance. After releasing the beta in April, Octane has released a stable 1.0 version!

Laravel

Simple Automatic Upgrades for Tailwind CSS with Shift

On Monday Shift officially released Tailwind Shifts for upgrading Tailwind projects all the way back to Tailwind 0.x.

Laravel Tailwind

Password Validation Rule Object in Laravel 8

A new Password Rule object is now included in Laravel v8.39, thanks to the efforts of Nuno Maduro.

Laravel Validation

Forge: Octane Support

Back in March, Taylor announced the new Laravel Octane project at Laracon Online. Since then, we've been busy working on bug fixes and enhancements to Octane, as well as adding support to Laravel Forge.

Laravel

Things every developer absolutely, positively needs to know about database indexing

Kai Sassnowski takes an in-depth dive into database indexing and the best times to use each approach.

Database

10 New CSS Features You Might Not Know About (2021 Edition)

Here are some of the amazing things that CSS is capable of these days.

CSS

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 Broadcasting

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.

Laravel Eloquent

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.

Laravel

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.

Laravel Eloquent