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PHP has historically been a dynamically-typed language, but with the introduction of various type declarations, could we dream up a future where PHP is both strong and statically-typed?

I've been using Alpine.js for a long time now, these are a few of my favourite plugins.

Quickly create full decorators in a matter of seconds, with the help of this simple composer command.

Nico shares the incredible suite of conveniences Nuxt JS brings to Vue3 applications, from auto-imports to out-of-the-box server side rendering & more!

A lot is changing in Laravel 11, including setting up middleware. This post explores how to do it and a lingering question I have after learning about it.

In this video we're going through what you could do with Laravel Pulse. We're tracking slow requests, slow jobs, queues, exceptions, user requests, cache....

Idempotency is a critical concept to be aware of when building robust APIs, and is baked into the SDKs of companies like Stripe, Paypal, Shopify, and Amazon. But what exactly is idempotency? And how can we easily add support for it to our Laravel APIs?

To provide the best user experience on your website you first need to understand the user, this is what event tracking is for.

Everyone talks about over-engineering but people rarely talk about under-engineering. Learn about the differences and how they depend on the context you are in.

As a project grows larger, it can sometimes become confusing to keep authorization logic in the controllers. A solution to this is to use Policies. But even for small projects, this is very powerful, in fact, I try to use it everywhere, it makes my code clean and readable.

I'll show you how to run Laravel Octane with the new FrankenPHP support inside a Docker container to serve your Laravel application.

FrankenPHP not only adds the great feature set of Caddy to Laravel, but can also compile everything down to a single executable that you can run anywhere!

LLaravel offers an elegant method-calling feature called Facades. At first glance, they resemble static methods, but well, they are not! What kind of magic is Laravel doing?

We experiment with spinning up fast, ephemeral VM's on Fly.io to autoscale Laravel queue workers.

A few days ago, we added a GitLab integration. In this blog post, we'll talk about the road to that integration and our struggles.

We learn how to generate unique YouTube-like identifiers and how to use them in Laravel.

Not once, not twice have we faced the infamous `Token Mismatch` exception in Laravel. But hey, the poor guy is just looking out for you, trying to shield you from the evil 😈, let's dive into Laravel's internals..

Public “asset” routes (serving an SVG or a JS embed) can cause server issues, but just because of extra traffic, but because of sessions!

Read all about how to use Cloudflare's Turnstile CAPTCHA solution to improve the security of your Laravel forms.

An introduction to the Flare GitLab integration!