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A few months ago a conversation around queued jobs hammering a database came up due to Laravel’s SerializesModels trait. While aware of the issue, I wasn't sure of the specifics. Digging deeper, I was extremely surprised by how relations are handled. Here are the findings and a few workarounds when queueing relations.

Have you ever needed to work with a 3rd.party API in Laravel, and not been sure how best to do it? In this article I walk you through how I integrate with the PingPing API to provide a predictable and testable integration

Some best practices and tips for composing high quality pull requests when contributing to open source projects.

If you had to pick one learning from the best productivity apps to create an amazing user experience, check out Around, Elevate, Notion, Todist, and Forest.

Test if your crawler handles various cases such as broken meta redirects, foreign chars in the URLs, etc. pp. correctly. Crawl this website to see if you crawler does well.

5 techniques for testing traits with simple and complex use cases

Loopple is an open-source drag-and-drop dashboard builder using Bootstrap. Looks good for prototyping applications.

A dynamic table component for Laravel Livewire. Supports TailwindCSS and Bootstrap 4/5.

Recently, Tailwind v2.1 was released with the JIT compiler included. The JIT (Just In Time) compiler only generates CSS that you actually use, instead of all sorts of classes that you (almost) never use, like `subpixel-antialiased`, `place-self-start`, and `backdrop-brightness-95`. And even better compiling your CSS goes extremely fast, about 100ms.

An introduction on how to add Laravel Components to the PHP Static Site Generator Jigsaw by using the Jigsaw Container.

Let's find out why Laravel requires a simple package like `psr/container`.

So you’ve got a Laravel application and you’re ready for the world to see it? Then this series is for you!

A quick tutorial on using Inertia.js for your application and plain Blade views for your marketing pages.

This Laravel package takes an existing database and will convert it to a migration file.

In this example we are going to create an export of User information into Excel using Laravel Resource Collection and Spatie’s simple excel package. Laravel Resources are normally used to transform your data for use in an API, but you can also create an array from the resource for use in our export.

In this post, I show you how you can unit test all possible Eloquent relationships.

In this tutorial, we will install Lumen with Composer, containerize our Lumen app + MySQL with Docker and go over some examples of interacting with our dockerized Lumen project. In the first part of this tutorial, we will focus on installing our Lumen app and get it up and running with Docker.

The email verification feature exists of three parts: 1. A page to tell the user that they have to verify their email address 2. A button where a user can click to request another link 3. A route to verify the email address after clicking on a button in an email

Inertia.js has an event system to hook into lifecycle events. You can, for example, hook into page visits and unsuccessful form requests. This new package provides helper methods for Laravel Dusk that you can use to wait for specific Inertia.js events to fire.

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