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Some fun things you can do with Blade directives.

Learn how to use Ray to test emails in Laravel!

Article that shows us the advantages of creating and using Custom Exceptions over generic ones in PHP

Just a small post about some of the cool things you can do / see in SQLite.

Learn how you can assign a user to an error in Flare!

Read about how to use Pest to add architecture tests for your PHP application and enforce standards such as folder structures, naming conventions, and more.

A pragmatic approach to avoiding early optimizations

Have you ever wondered how Laravel switches between different drivers' implementations? Well, hang tight, we will learn how!

Learn about the differences between thinking in terms of data (CRUD) vs thinking in terms of business processes (behaviour) and how it affects code maintainability.

Read about common reasons that your web application's tests might be failing. We'll also look at how to diagnose the issues and solve them.

Explains what the Code Smell 'Primitive Obsession' is, the damage it can cause to your codebase, how to spot it and - how to fix it!

Let's dive on how to enable OPCache and fine-tune php-fpm to handle the most requests as possible on a given machine.

Read about how to encrypt queued jobs, notifications, mailables, and listeners in Laravel for improved security.

In this tutorial, we'll implement Real-time Database Notifications in FilamentPHP using Laravel Reverb.

Short URL v8.0 brings new customisation options and includes lots of refactored code to make the package more awesome behind the scenes! 🚀

Sometimes we need to reference table names throughout our codebase, like when we're using the DB facade. Although table names don't change often, I still get an uneasy feeling of hardcoding them. It's so much better to reference the model directly so we have one source of truth for the table name. So, let's learn how to do that! We'll also create a trait that allows static access to any of our model table names to keep our code a little tidier.

Read about how to use Find A PR (findapr.io) to find open-source Laravel and PHP projects that you can make contributions to.

Learn how to clear your Ray window whenever you want so that only the most recent output is displayed.