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What if you don’t want to use the email relay services of Gmail SMTP or its alternatives? In this article, we’ll teach you how to set up a local SMTP server for MacOS, Linux and Windows and get rid of any email-sending dependencies.

The blog mentions various ways and resources that helps you with reducing the amount of times you have to debug (especially Laravel related).

Laravel 10 will be released on February 7, 2023. Its development is still ongoing. Let's dive into every relevant new feature we know about already.

A post detailing how you can use MySQL and Postgres functions inside SQLite. This is a great way to use SQLite as your testing DB, even when you use MySQL or Postgres specific functions in your code.

Since v5.7, Laravel provides email verification out-of-the-box. Check out how it works, as well as alternative ways to set up and customize email verification.

This article covers details of how I moved my blog from Wordpress to Laravel

What is a database view, and how can we use it to make our code cleaner?

Have you ever had a huge list of values that the users needs to scroll through to get to the item they wanted, you know the classic `Country` dropdown, and for me who lives in Sweden will have to scroll through a load of countries to get to the desired one.

By default Laravel adds cookies to the response of your app. Sometimes you don't want Laravel to use any cookies, just because it doesn't need them, to improve caching or show your users your not storing any information about them - privacy wise.

A quick 8-minute video detailing some of the similarities (and differences) between two popular Laravel authentication packages.

An explanation on how I built the PHP package. This is one of the first packages I created and it might be useful to read when you just start.

KPHP is a PHP compiler. It compiles a limited subset of PHP to a native binary running faster than PHP.

Hey, We have open sourced our upgrade helper project to easily view changes between laravel versions. Hope that this project helps community for upgrade their projects

Setting up rate limiting on routes and then testing them might seem hard but it's actually not

Splade provides a super easy way to build Single Page Applications (SPA) using standard Laravel Blade templates, enhanced with renderless Vue 3 components. In essence, you can write your app using the simplicity of Blade, and besides that magic SPA-feeling, you can sparkle it to make it interactive. All without ever leaving Blade.

A few days ago a user at the Laracasts forum had performance issue with one of his queries that used joins. This post here will explain what the issue probably was and how to speed that up.

Here, we will be looking at a very useful laravel/mysql tip where we will learn how to make a column unique along with soft delete.

A Laravel package to dynamically generate Open Graph images using your favourite front-end stack. This way you can create images using an HTML template, with Tailwind and custom fonts. It works by leveraging Puppeteer (headless Chrome) that takes a visual screenshot of your HTML.

A detailed guide on how to send emails via Node.js with or without Nodemailer and SMTP. Learn how to send dynamic HTML emails and sending with Gmail.

When in doubt, clear caches in Laravel. Knowing all the different types of caches will help you debug any problem you might have in your projects.