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Have you ever deployed your website or web app, only to discover hours later that you’ve introduced bugs or broken links? Or do you clear the cache with every deploy, leaving the first users to experience slow performance? In this guide, you’ll learn how to use a crawler to automatically detect errors and warm the cache, ensuring your site runs smoothly after every deployment.

Laravel 11.38 introduces the --except option for optimize and optimize:clear commands, letting you skip specific tasks.

PSR-6 comes in—a PHP standard that provides a consistent interface for caching systems, making your code flexible, efficient, and easier to maintain.

Straightforward walkthrough for setting up Docker using Takeout.

Learn to create a customizable admin panel in minutes with our Filament Crash-Course.

Laravel 11.37.0 introduces whereDoesntHaveRelation and whereMorphDoesntHaveRelation, simplifying queries for models without specific relationships.

In this short video, we break down the key differences between Pass by Value and Pass by Reference in PHP. 🚀 Understanding these two concepts is essential for writing efficient and bug-free code. Learn how PHP handles variables when passed to functions, and see how small changes in your code can have a BIG impact on performance and behavior! 🔍

Combine data from multiple tables in Laravel using different join types like inner, left, right, and advanced joins with practical examples.

Learn about servers, serverless and how to deploy PHP and Laravel applications on AWS Lambda using Bref PHP.

Monitor Laravel queues without external packages and get notified when jobs exceed a threshold, ensuring timely action to prevent delays.

Laravel event sourcing generator adds a new Artisan command that can generate a full domain directory structure for Spatie event sourcing.

Learn about the 23 powerful Laravel and Livewire PHP Attributes.

Using Cloudflare Workers we can quickly build an effective API proxy, without spinning up any additional hardware. Whether its needing a CORS proxy, speeding up slow APIs via caching, or rate limit management on stingy APIs, this serverless tech is as easy to set up as it is powerful.

Blade provides directives like @foreach, @while, @for, and @forelse for working with PHP's loop. Did you know... A handy $loop variable is available within these directives.

Statamic’s Field Actions make it super easy to automate tasks like tweaking text or filling in fields. The article shares examples, such as turning text into a title case or grabbing URL metadata.

Sometimes, no matter how senior you are, little issues like this can humble you. I recently faced a confusing issue where I was expecting a relationship to give me a User object, but instead, it just gave me a number! After two days of scratching my head, I finally figured out what went wrong.

Laravel 11.35.0 introduces the URI class simplifying URI handling with methods for schemes, hosts, paths, and more for clearer code.