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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.

Validating Laravel Console Input

Ryan Chandler shows us how to create a trait to handle console input validation.

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.

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.

Laravel Batches and real-time progress with Livewire

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Modern PHP Cheat Sheet

A to-the-point summary of all awesome PHP features

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.

8 Tips to Make Your Website Feel Like an iOS App