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Generate a custom Laravel Forge deploy script that handles both dev and prod deployments for your application in seconds.

Learn how to integrate the Social Media Share Icons in a Laravel App

Exporting data to an Excel file is a common requirement in many applications. Laravel Excel provides a straightforward way to generate Excel files with data from your application. In this guide, we'll walk through the process of creating an Excel export file using Laravel Excel and including dropdowns with predefined options.

Take a quick look at what is a Command Bus and develop a mental model on how to think about it and it's purpose.

In this article we will be going over how to I used laravel-export to deploy the very blog you're reading right now; to Cloudflare Pages, Netlify and Vercel.

Recently discovered the parameter() and parameters($array) methods for setting placeholders in Laravel routes, perfect for renaming default placeholders. I explain a bit more in this post.

This is how I like to do deployments for Laravel applications. Leverage CI pipelines to give yourself optionality and reduce issues!

I built this small little helper tool that makes it easy to see information about key presses inside of JavaScript events.

How to effectively use interfaces to make your PHP package easier to work with and more customizable than ever before.

Learn about the differences between framework coupling and framework decoupling and how they affect the maintainability of the code.

Learn about the differences between accidental and essential complexity, how to reduce the accidental complexity and deal with the essential complexity when building software products.

How to use assertions in PHP to reduce if statements and take care of proper data validation.

In this article, we'll check out 6 different ways to check whether a Laravel Collection is empty. We'll also take a look at a common gotcha that can cause bugs in your code.

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?