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Have you ever been on a website and navigated between pages, only to notice that the layout shifts slightly because the scrollbar suddenly appears on longer pages?

Learn how to implement & test Laravel Socialite endpoints, handle edge cases, and mock providers.

You're three months into a new job when someone mentions "we have a dozen different branches for our customers." Learn how to escape the custom code nightmare with four proven patterns that actually scale, plus real Laravel examples.

This article continues the series on integrating Trix with Laravel by focusing on user mentions using the Rich Text Laravel package. It walks through adding a Tribute.js-powered mention picker in the editor, implementing back-end support via an AttachableContract and Signed Global IDs, and even scaffolds a notification system to email mentioned users.

Learn how to deploy your Inertia Vue SSR worker to the Cloudflare Workers platform without breaking a sweat.

The Laravel Action Pattern organizes business logic into reusable, testable classes. It enables context-independent actions for maintainable code.

The term "coroutine" often comes up when talking about asynchronous or non-blocking code, but what does it actually mean? In this post, we will explore coroutines as a concept and see how PHP supports them through Generators and Fibers.

Making a visually appealing range input based on Laravel Cloud's design, native HTML and only a few lines of JavaScript.

An ESLint plugin I wrote for linting PHP files. Aims to provide a better linting experience than PHP CodeSniffer.

Read about how you can verify that a URL is a signed URL in your Laravel tests.

Open source CLI tools for developers.

Learn how to reduce your database queries by passing an instance of "Illuminate\Database\Query\Builder" to the "whereIn" method of your queries.

In this episode of the Quick Win Wednesday series, I'll walk you through how to customize your pagination and us the total amount of results even though you're using pagination.

It’s the start of a new fiscal year. Strategy season. That time when all the grand ideas come out and everyone is still hopefull. Over the years, I’ve settled into a structure that helps me define projects that not only link to the strategy above but also looks at my own team’s enviroment, I thought I’d share it here.

Learn about how to use asymmetric property visibility (added in PHP 8.4) to define different visibility levels for reading and writing properties in PHP.

In this video, I walk you through how to access your device’s battery status using the Navigator Battery API in JavaScript

Learn how to format monetary values in JavaScript using the "toLocaleString" method and "Intl.NumberFormat" object.