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Read about how you can use "declare(strict_types=1)" to improve the type safety of your PHP code. We'll discuss how to make your code more robust and avoid type coercion in your code that can cause bugs in your code.

Organize resource pages in the sidebar in order to make navigation between resource pages more comfort

This article shows how to implement real-time notifications using Server-Sent Events instead of WebSockets or Long Polling.

A start-to-finish video on how to build a functional ride share app like Uber from scratch with Laravel and Vue

Use Laravel's new Process facade while avoiding issues related to processing stdout vs stderr output, environment variables, and PHP security settings.

Back in september 2022, a new "scoped" filesystem driver has been introduced to Laravel. This article shows how to use it to improve file management and refactoring.

Learn how to create your own Blade directives to make your Laravel Blade templates easier to view. The article covers what Blade directives are, how they're used in the framework, and how you can create your own "friendlyDateTime" directive.

A nice refactoring I've learned recently is to utilize types in conditionals. For years I’ve been doing `if (!empty($posts...

Handle PayPal webhooks in Laravel php framework with ease.

What if, we can import spreadsheet data, without uploading the file?? In this article, we import data with JS packages, web workers, and Livewire!

Saloon gives you all the tools you need to build beautiful API integrations or SDKs for your application. Build API integrations faster with Saloon.

Use Laravel Sanctum to host your frontend and backend on different subdomains - including authentication and CSRF protection.

In this blog post, I will guide you through the steps to create a Polymorphic One-to-Many factory in Laravel.

Three methods are explained to retrieve data between the start and end dates of a model in a Laravel 10 project.

In this episode I'm sitting down with Freek Van der Herten.

Warp is a Rust-based terminal. A powerful application that eases out a lot of things for you, like sharing snippets, command history, suggestions, workflows and even a built-in AI to help you out when you get stuck.

If you have jobs and listeners being fired within database transactions, it can lead to data inconsistencies if the transaction rolls back. Learn how to properly handle them here.

Rolling averages are a great tool for smoothing out noisy data, helping you to more easily spot long-term trends. This new package adds first-class support to Laravel Collections for rolling average calculations.

Use browser's native autocomplete input fields and dynamically update with Livewire!

Learn how Rector, a tool for programmatically refactoring PHP code, can help you keep your codebase clean and consistent--no matter who’s working on it.