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Introducing Level Up: A Laravel package designed to boost user engagement through gamification. Features experience points, achievements, and leaderboards.

We talk about how to extend core Laravel libraries using the various Manager classes that Laravel provides. This shows two examples of adding your own queue driver.

Value objects are a great way to add safety and consistency to PHP applications, while improving readability & testability. Let's dive into what they are, what they're not (DTOs!), and how they can help us improve our code quality.

Ever needed to inspect the headers of a HTTP response with Guzzle, without downloading the response body? Here's how you do it.

A tutorial for downloading, installing and configuring SQLite in Windows and using it in a Laravel project.

I tried to run a very slow request but kept hitting the timeout. Here's how you can increase the timeout and get on with the development.

We look into the different parts of a test, and a checklist of things to check when debugging a failing test.

Sometimes it’s difficult to decide where to put code, trying to figure out where it really belongs. Laravel has a predefined folder structure that you can keep to for most scenarios, but I wasn’t sure whether the settings should be kept in a config file, a class, or somewhere else. In the end I decided to use an enum.

We see how Laravel queues handle graceful restarts/stops, and how we can do the same in our own Artisan commands.

An Alpine.js plugin to dynamically fetch fragments of your UI from the server. Use Alpine AJAX to build a SPA-like UI in a standard Laravel app without Inertia or Livewire.

Laravel provides a way to invalidate and "log out" an active user's sessions on other devices without invalidating the session on their current device.

In this article, I take a first look at Filament and show you how to set it up and take your first steps. You'll be amazed at how much you can get done in a short amount of time! This article is part of a series where I'll build an app that shows in what fly.io regions it has been deployed, and I'll add a neat party trick at the end. Stay tuned!

Explore how Laravel Envoy can help increase your productivity by automating the boring stuff.

Simply enabling the GitHub Actions cache for these tools will save you a lot of run time. We discuss how to enable caching for Rector, Pint, and the vendor directory.

Debug logging is difficult in Next.js. In this post, we'll provide a solution to this issue.

Learn how to install and configure Prometheus and Grafana to visualize the network requests made to services that are running behind the Traefik ingress controller in minikube (Kubernetes).

In this article, we quickly set up a world of seamless, server-side rendered, Laravel-React development for our projects with Inertia SSR! Cake on top: It's super easy to set up on Fly.io!

Do you create automated backups of your database? Are you sure they work? laravel-backup-restore is a new package than can help you verify the integrity of your backups.

Migrating a legacy PHP application to Laravel will probably require a custom hashing driver. In this article, I share how I usually handle it.

Avoid global variables in JS. You can never be sure that the variable you are referring to is even present on the `window` object. Instead, they could be easily swapped by ES6 singletons, bringing you type-safety and direct IDE support.