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Learn how to use the cpx CLI to run PHP scratch files with superpowers that'll make you way more efficient!

Deploying a Laravel application without downtime is essential for maintaining a seamless user experience. This deployment script achieves exactly that, ensuring a smooth transition between releases. It clones the latest version of your project, sets up environment files, installs dependencies, runs migrations, and links the new release—all while keeping your application live. With built-in clean-up for old releases and error handling, this script is a robust solution for modern Laravel deployments.

This article shares 10 efficient and fun ways to seed your database, from classic PHP arrays to importing CSVs and using AI to generate random, realistic data.

An article explaining PHP's `yield` keyword and how it can be use in place of `return` to easily build iterators.

Review the configuration feature to get a deeper understanding of what configuration looks like.

Squeaky adds an additional validation rule to your Laravel applications, allowing you to check user submitted input for profanity.

Read about how to use Squeaky, the new Laravel package by Jon Purvis, to validate input and ensure it doesn't contain profanity.

It may only be a side effect of its colour palette and class naming conventions, but as a colourblind developer, Tailwind has made it SO EASY to design with sensible colours - a superpower I've been missing my whole life

A PHP package to measure the width of unicode strings rendered to a terminal.

Laravel Config Validator v2.8.0 adds support for Laravel 12, PHPUnit 11, and Larastan 3.

This simple step-by-step guide teaches you how to deploy your Laravel project to Laravel Cloud! We'll cover everything from setup to handling queues for background tasks. What you'll learn: ✅ Deploying a Laravel project to the cloud ✅ Setting up and managing queues ✅ Optimizing performance for scalability

A fluent, modular workflow builder for Laravel that leverages the Pipeline pattern to simplify and organise business logic.

Discover how to manage 404 errors in Laravel by creating custom fallbacks.

Read about how to use the `Illuminate\Console\Prohibitable` trait to prevent destructive commands from running in your Laravel application. We'll also look at how to prevent your own custom Artisan commands from running using this trait.

Want to deploy your Laravel project on Forge with real-time WebSockets using Reverb? In this step-by-step tutorial, we’ll walk you through setting up Laravel Forge, configuring your server, and integrating Reverb for real-time communication. Whether you're building a chat app, notifications system, or live updates, this guide will help you get everything running smoothly.

Learn how to install and configure Typesense in a Laravel app, then optimize search by sorting records, using filters, adjusting typo tolerance, accessing raw responses, and leveraging facets for better filtering.

A tutorial for loading an image as soon as it enters the viewport, using the Intersect plugin of the AlpineJS framework.

Laravel 11.42 introduces new date query methods, making it easier to filter records by relative dates like past, future, today, and more.