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I accidentally discovered some funky behaviour when running an artisan command. And, I highly recommend people avoid making a costly mistake by using it!

The Laravel team at http://Fly.io has made a package that enables you to deploy your Laravel app in under five minutes! It's called fly-laravel and it can set up your Laravel app, MySQL and/or Redis, and can even set up Cron and Queues for you.

We at Laracraft tried a lot of Windows based local Laravel development environments, but we where not happy with the performance and usability of the known environments like: php artisan serve, Vagrant/Homestead, Laravel Sail, Laragon etc. These tools are for sure very good, if you maybe setup a new Laravel project, which has not jet very complex operations and requests and you only work with a small database. But if you need more performance for you heavy requests, these tools are not sufficient.

Exploring the variety of options the where method gives us to query the database.

Estimate reading time of text content with Bookworm for Laravel. Better user experience for readers. Easy to install and use.

We're upgrading from Laravel 9 to 10, and PHPUnit 9 to 10, and, if all goes well, we'll top it off by migrating to Pest 2, the latest version.

It's the last quarter of the year and I'm getting more and more excited about the upcoming Laravel 11 release. Let's wrap it up!

Muhammed's been working with Eloquent for over half a decade now, and it's time to share his bag of tricks. Buckle up, it'll be a good ride!

In this article, we utilize Livewire's in-built Alpine, exposed JavaScript objects, and nesting capabilities in order to create a parent manager to handle dependency among dropdowns that use the same component.

A CLI tool to scaffold a Laravel package

A Laravel package to enable users to manage and monitor their active browser sessions. Allows users to view devices where they are logged in and provides options to terminate unrecognized or all sessions, enhancing account security

A tutorial for displaying continuous numbering of collection items on all pagination pages in a Laravel project.

How to use Nginx Unit to server your Laravel application. It turns out, we can get rid of PHP-FPM, and run our apps more efficiently. We see how, and go over the pros and cons.

A new package by Mior called Workbench lets us set up an example Laravel app inside our packages. This Workbench app can serve as documentation of how the package integrates with a Larave app. Plus, we can use the Workbench models, controllers, routes, etc., in our package's tests and quickly run the Workbench app in the browser!

Alex and Christoph explain why error tracking is crucial for your application

This video dives into how HTTP gets turned into PHP - using the typical Forge stack (nginx -> php-fpm -> laravel)

We see how to use the Fly.io machines API to create our own little version of GitHub Actions, letting us run ad-hoc tasks whenever we need them!

The Valet loopback command gives you the ability to resolve your Valet sites and proxies from both your host machine and your docker containers.

Favicon Fetcher 3.0 comes with better HTML parsing, improved exception handling, request timeout config options, and some QoL improvements.

Discover how the Manager Pattern simplifies creating complex objects in #Laravel and learn to implement one yourself!