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Learn how to limit the eager-loaded relationships on Laravel models. We'll also take a look at the underlying SQL queries that are generated to achieve this functionality.

To improve my skill set, I decided it might be fun to create a real-time chat application where users can create rooms and send messages. Laravel Reverb seemed like the perfect way to achieve this, so I started building. Once I had completed a proof of concept and was ready to deploy it, however, the trouble started for me.

Vue 3.5 has just dropped this week, and it's packed with some nice features and improvements. I have been digging through the release notes and playing around with the new features, so let me glance over the highlights!

See how to easily modify and override methods found in the framework's Request class in order to handle specific routes with sizeable payloads.

While colocating tests within a Laravel application isn’t common it’s a way to increase test discoverability and developer happiness.

A recap video about our trip to Dallas Texas for Laracon US 2024. Featuring the trip, the apartment, the view, the bars, the restaurants, the venue, and its speakers.

In this article, we’ll walk you through generating alternative text (alt text) from an image using the TransformersPHP library.

At Laracon US 2024, Taylor Otwell and the Laravel team introduced a series of "minor" features for Laravel 11 that are anything but minor.

Primitive Obsession is a code smell which indicates a deeper problem within our code. Learn more about how we can recognise the symptoms, what the consequences are and, most importantly, how to fix it!

Learn how to boost Laravel app performance using the Speculation Rules API. Implement prerendering and prefetching with our Laravel package for faster page loads.

We recently spent some time battling credit card fraud. Here’s a guide to the indicators and methods we used to fight back.

An introduction & guide to building Laravel apps using Alpine AJAX by the creator of the JavaScript library.

Learn how to use downsampling to show time series data while providing the right balance between user experience, and performance.

We all strive to write good code when we jump onto a project but sometimes do you wonder why? The post covers - Why you should write clean code - Techniques for writing cleaner code The techniques here are useful for all level of developers and worth a quick skim over as we all nothing wrong with a quick refresher

In this episode of the Quick Win Wednesday series, we're taking a look at how you can use multiple route files in a elegant way. Available for us since Laravel 11.8.

Read about the upcoming "property hooks" feature that will be added in PHP 8.4.