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The recording of my first ever talk at the first PHP Skopje meetup

Laravel Clockwork is a powerful debugging and profiling tool seamlessly integrated into the Laravel framework. With its real-time web interface, Clockwork provides developers with instant insights into their application's runtime behavior.

In this post, I explain what traits are and their common use cases

Having reusable input components is great. Knowing how to make them is even better! Follow along to see how we can create a generic TextInput component with a fluent interface that can be reused everywhere with just a few lines of code. While it won’t be a Livewire component, it can still make use of `wire:model` and other Livewire goodies. How is that possible? Read on to find out!

Using controller-like classes and Laravel-data for efficient API communication

Spatie/BrowserShot is a versatile Laravel package that facilitates the generation of PDFs or screenshots by leveraging headless browsers. This package seamlessly integrates with Laravel applications, allowing developers to capture the rendered HTML of web pages or views and convert them into PDFs or images.

Discountify is a Laravel package designed for managing dynamic discounts with custom conditions. It allows you to create flexible and powerful discounting strategies, easily defining conditions and applying percentage-based discounts to enhance your e-commerce application

Generate a custom Laravel Forge deploy script that handles both dev and prod deployments for your application in seconds.

Learn how to integrate the Social Media Share Icons in a Laravel App

Exporting data to an Excel file is a common requirement in many applications. Laravel Excel provides a straightforward way to generate Excel files with data from your application. In this guide, we'll walk through the process of creating an Excel export file using Laravel Excel and including dropdowns with predefined options.

Take a quick look at what is a Command Bus and develop a mental model on how to think about it and it's purpose.

In this article we will be going over how to I used laravel-export to deploy the very blog you're reading right now; to Cloudflare Pages, Netlify and Vercel.

Recently discovered the parameter() and parameters($array) methods for setting placeholders in Laravel routes, perfect for renaming default placeholders. I explain a bit more in this post.

This is how I like to do deployments for Laravel applications. Leverage CI pipelines to give yourself optionality and reduce issues!

I built this small little helper tool that makes it easy to see information about key presses inside of JavaScript events.

How to effectively use interfaces to make your PHP package easier to work with and more customizable than ever before.

Learn about the differences between framework coupling and framework decoupling and how they affect the maintainability of the code.

Learn about the differences between accidental and essential complexity, how to reduce the accidental complexity and deal with the essential complexity when building software products.

How to use assertions in PHP to reduce if statements and take care of proper data validation.

In this article, we'll check out 6 different ways to check whether a Laravel Collection is empty. We'll also take a look at a common gotcha that can cause bugs in your code.