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As developers, we lose a lot of benefits by testing after the fact.

A quick way of disabling Composer's default script process timeout of 300 seconds (5 minutes). Easy to overlook in the docs.

We will crack the controversy of the repository pattern in Laravel. The good and the bad, and what alternatives we can use to build a maintainable codebase.

The LoB principle dictates that the behavior of a unit of code should be as obvious as possible by looking only at that unit of code. But I think something is missing from this discussion.

If you are using Promise.all(), you are probably missing a super easy to implement opportunity for huge performance gains!

Sometimes you figure out why the uploaded image is not progressive, while you use a media-library to handle the upload. This check will help you figure out if tools are installed on your server.

Here, we will be looking at what to do if we have two or more traits with the same method name. We will be looking at how we can solve the same method name collision.

Tighten programmer Alison shares an intro to terminable middleware in Laravel. This type of middleware does work *after* the HTTP response is sent to the browser. Learn when to use it, and a some gotchas.

In this video you'll learn how to build a Public API. We're using, Caching, rate limiting, API resources and we'll have a look at Laravel Telescope. We'll also use PostMan to test our API.

This post covers the logic needed to discover definitions in a PHP project and how they're represented in a static analyser.

A new series on my blog where I'll be writing a static analyser for PHP in Rust and showcasing the steps and development as I go.

Read about the Javascript library "collect.js" that provides a Laravel-like syntax for dealing with arrays. The article also covers some examples of commonly-used methods.

We will extend the Laravel framework with very minimal modifications. Using custom SMTP settings is really easy to achieve.

How to clear cloudflare page cache using Laravel and for Statamic CMS

In this video, we're optimizing our queries with the WhereRelation method. It makes our code more readable and shorter at the same time. I'm a huge fan!

A package built that adds a few Artisan commands to allow multiple Laravel Sail sites to run at the same time locally, with custom domain names.

ExpressCode (beta) enables developers to write a few short lines of yaml and generate Laravel models, migrations, factories, form requests and more in seconds. Speed up your Laravel development workflow exponentially.

Spin up your development background processes with ease 🪄

This article breaks down pictorially, how to create and use a facade in your Laravel application.

Learn about imposter syndrome, its causes and how to combat it in the field of programming.