Mastering Laravel Collections

Laravel’s Collection class is one of the most powerful and expressive features of the framework. While it often flies under the radar for newcomers, mastering collections can significantly simplify your code, increase readability, and give you more contro

Laravel

Ensuring Environment Variables Are Set in Laravel

I was recently browsing through X and saw an awesome code tip from Oussama Mater about a method I didn't know existed in Laravel. So I wanted to put together a quick article to share it with you all so you can benefit from it too!

Laravel

Optimistic UI Tricks for Livewire and Alpine

There's been a lot of debate in the last few weeks on the merits of building web apps with HTML-over-the-wire vs. using popular JavaScript libraries like Vue and React, and how that choice affects the experiences of end users and developers.

Livewire Alpine

Embed Livewire Components Using Wire Extender

Wire Extender allows you to embed any Livewire component on any website or even within a static HTML file.

Livewire

Generating status badges using PHP

ecently, we introduced a nice new feature to Oh Dear: status badges. A status badge is a beautiful SVG that shows the uptime status of your site.

Laravel

Create Beautiful Charts in Filament With the Apex Charts Plugin

The Apex Charts plugin for Filament by Leandro Ferreira brings the popular Apex Chart library to your Laravel applications. This plugin uses the same API as the Apex Chart library, so you can use the official documentation as a configuration reference for

Filament Laravel

Creating beautiful invoices using Tailwind and Laravel PDF

Last week, we released a new package called Laravel PDF that allows you to transform Blade views into PDFs. Under the hood, Chromium is used to perform the transformation. Because Chromium is an up-to-date browser, you can use any modern CSS you like.

Laravel Tailwind

Building Maintainable PHP Applications: Over-engineering vs under-engineering

Overengineering (or over-engineering) is the act of designing a product or providing a solution to a problem in an elaborate or complicated manner, where a simpler solution can be demonstrated to exist with the same efficiency and effectiveness as that of

Vanilla PHP

Creating Data Tables in Livewire

Let's create the Livewire component we're going to use for our data table. While we're at it, we'll talk about component naming and organization for a task like this.

Livewire

Building a procedurally generated game with PHP

Today, we're building a procedurally generated, 2D game with PHP. It's a simple game that's focussed around resource gathering on a procedurally generated map.

Vanilla PHP

A Collaborative List of 1400+ Public APIs

A Collaborative List of 1400+ Public APIs

Other

PHP 8.3 Released

PHP 8.3 is a major update of the PHP language. It contains many new features, such as explicit typing of class constants, deep-cloning of readonly properties and additions to the randomness functionality. As always it also includes performance improvement

Vanilla PHP

Laravel Pulse

Pulse delivers at-a-glance insights into your application's performance and usage. Track down bottlenecks like slow jobs and endpoints, find your most active users, and more.

Laravel

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