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PHP 8.4 is expected to drop on November 21, 2024. Let's review the known new features and changes.

It's easy to use in development, just do bun run dev like if it was npm. But for the deployment, I did have to do some research. Let me share my findings it with you.

A few different methods for querying Laravel Eloquent's Many to Many relationships to filter results.

Take a time machine back to the 90s and watch a MS DOS disk defragmenter process your PHPUnit tests! 

I struggled for a long time to find a good way to represent settings in my Laravel apps. spatie/laravel-data solves this for me with strong types and Eloquent casting.

Short URL v7.7.0 brings some performance improvements and the ability to define a custom database connection for the package's models.

In this article, we wire the checkbox selection of rows of a table, and wire "updates" to each row with Livewire's all-new, wire:stream directive!

Yes! I created my very first package. In this video, we'll go over installing and using it. With this package, you can get all conversion rates based on a certain currency or get a direct conversion rate between 2 currencies. There is also a function that takes in a certain value that needs to be converted. For example 150 euros to dollars. You can find the package here: https://github.com/BurtDS/cash-converter Be sure to give it a star. :-)

We will look at a couple of common scenarios where adding a couple of lines to your tests can future-proof your application from data loss when using Model Observers.

Writing tests to validate behaviour in a multi-tenancy, multi-database app can be challenging. "Lock wait timeout" errors, or transactions cleaned up in one db and not another - it can be very frustrating! Fortunately, Laravel has a way to support db transactions across multiple databases.

Here are a few tips and tricks that I have learnt along the way to help optimize your database queries in Laravel.

How to easily progressively enhance an instant search component with Alpine AJAX so that it works with or without JavaScript available.

in this video, we're transforming our load more button functionality to an infinite scroll using Alpine.js and more specifically we're using x-intersect to trigger our loadMore function.

In this video you'll learn how to implement "load more" functionality with Livewire 3 in about 2 minutes.

The Flare Slack integration now supports unfurling

Read about how to use Laravel Pennant to add feature flags to your Laravel apps. We'll show you use cases for feature flags, the advantages and disadvantages, and how to write tests for your feature flag code.