Wrangle Your Business Logic with Laravel Pipelines
A guide on how to use pipe patterns in Laravel to handle complex data processing tasks.
Laravel
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A Guide to Laravel Authorization Patterns
Almost all systems follow a similar pattern when it comes to authorization. In this post, I'll highlight how authorization systems generally work, and how those stages can be applied to Laravel. Learning this structure tends to make using o
How to Integrate Laravel Sanctum with Spatie Permissions
Use a single source of truth for your user permissions. One rules set to rule them all.
I'm free!
I’ve finally left Twitter / X and currently hanging out on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/arter.dev
Model Factories for Custom Namespace Models
A quick tip on how to allow Laravel to detect custom namespace models
A pirate's guide to routing basics in Laravel
Ahoy, me hearties! Cap'n Chris here with another thrillin' Laravel adventure. Today, we be divin' into the mysterious world of route structures in a Laravel application. So, hoist the Jolly Roger and let's set sail!
Laravel chunk vs cursor methods compared
When to use chunk(), and when to use cursor()
Demystifying Gates in Laravel
If you find the concept of "gates" in Laravel a bit confusing, don't worry. You're not alone.
Introducing Dream, an AI / ML Toolbox for Laravel
Two weeks ago, I was playing with some ML ideas in a Laravel application. I didn't quite like the accuracy of a certain cloud provider's ML product, so I wanted to try another. To do this, I had to re-write the client implementation in my a
Authenticate to Laravel with WordPress
"How do I use WordPress as an identity provider for Laravel Socialite." Oh, that wasn't your first thought? Well while we're here, I may as well share a great package that allows you to do just that. And if it was, then you're in the right
Laravel 9 Crash Course Part 0: Setting up Laravel Sail
If you don't have Docker desktop installed, go ahead and download & install from https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop/
How to run Laravel Mix commands in Docker
Goodbye .nvmrc files
How To Install Vue 3 in Laravel 8 From Scratch
A step-by-step guide to installing, mounting, and displaying Vue 3 components in a base Laravel 8 install.
Keep Your Laravel Routes Clean on Any Project Size
In this post, I'm going to show you how you can organize routes in various size projects. From small projects to large, I'll show you some techniques that have kept a growing monolith's routes in a manageable state.
Top Laravel Tools for 2021 to Turbo-charge Your Workflow
Let's talk tooling! One of the benchmarks of a great framework is the ecosystem & tooling. I may be biased, but I think Laravel has some of the best tooling around. These are my top tooling choices for 2021. Let's gooo.
Automatic Alt Text With Spatie Media Package and AWS Rekognition
I recently implemented a feature in our API that automatically creates alt tags for all images uploaded with Spatie Laravel-medialibrary. This allows all images added to automatically be tagged with AWS's Rekgonition API, saving our marketi
How to Setup TailwindCSS in Laravel: A Quick Tutorial Guide
This guide will show you how to setup TailwindCSS in your Laravel project. It assumes you are using Laravel 8 and Laravel mix to bundle your front-end assets.
Why the 80/20 Principle is The Key to Unlocking Self Learning
The 80/20 Principle or otherwise known as Pareto Principle, is an observation (not rule) that out of 100% of the output, 80% of it can be attributed to just 20% of the input. In other words, for a given result, it asserts that 80% of that r
How to cleanly organize Laravel application events.
Lately I've been working on an application with quite a few events. Some events were related to user actions. Some were related to payment transactions. Others were related to bookings.
I'm officially a Laravel core (docs) contributor! 🎉
Currently, my colleagues and I are troubleshooting some deployment issues with our Laravel Horizon queue. On our development server, the deploy process works beautifully, and subsiquent jobs are firing correctly when the jobs are placed int
Quick tip: How to set up in-memory database for Laravel unit tests
If you're using the RefreshDatabase trait, this is how I set up my unit tests that require a database to use an in-memory database using SQLite. Using an in-memory database simplifies our testing process and does not require us to set up ad
A No Fuss Laravel & Docker Starter Repo
When I initially wanted to transition from Homestead & Vagrant to a containerized version of Laravel, I struggled to get it working. I Googled far and wide, and tried a ton of different "simple" walk throughs that were anything but.