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Differences between REST and GraphQL API in Laravel

In this episode of the Quick Win Wednesday series, we'll learn about Named Arguments, which has been available for us since PHP 8. Using Named Arguments doesn't only make your code more readable, it also helps in the definition of argument order and it allows us to skip arguments that have a pre-defined value.

Livewire Strict helps enforce security measures and prevents you from having unprotected sensitive public properties.

Learn about the 9 magic constants that PHP provides. We'll look at examples of what each magic constant does.

Read about the `#[\Override]` attribute in PHP. We'll discuss what it is, how to use it, and the benefits it provides.

Learn about the new feature added in Short URL v8.1.0 which allows you to explicitly set the allowed URL schemes for destination URLs.

In this episode of the Quick Win Wednesday series, we're taking a look at whereAny(), which was released with Laravel 10.47. A very elegant way of grabbing data based on a conditional "any of the following columns".

Learn about how to use Lawman by Jon Purvis to add Pest architecture tests to your Saloon API integrations.

Short URL v8.1.0 adds the ability to specify the allowed URL schemes for shortened URLs.

Learn about what PHP attributes are and how to use them. We'll also look at how to create your own PHP attributes.

In several projects, I've noticed that it can be useful to validate max filesize against the `upload_max_filesize` in php.ini. Let's take a look at how to write a validation rule to achieve this.

Author draws a parallel between tests and stories to explain their opinions on maintaining an expressive test suite.

Single Page Apps... without writing any JavaScript? Let’s do it! Learn how to unlock the power of HTMX in your Laravel applications in our newest blog article from @nicodevs.

Whenever something feels like magic, it means I don't fully understand it. To truly grasp and improve things, I must go beyond the surface and examine the underlying machinery.

This post is a response/reaction to "From Contributor to Maintainer: Lessons from Open Source Software" by Patrick Organ.

It's now possible to prioritize issues in Flare!

Lessons learned from contributing to open source software projects.

Every laravel developer have this wish to contribute to laravel, but it's hard to find a start point. How to do that, where to start, how this, where that all this questions and searching on internet won't be much of a help. There are a ton of articles on how to do laravel but almost no detailed information on how to contribute to this master framework. In this article, we will try to find out answers to some of those questions.