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Written from scratch with performance and utility in mind, this new version brings a cleaner and faster interface, along with a few new tricks up its sleeve.

Build a file uploader that supports drag and drop and file selection, has a progressbar, filename preview and file removal.

Read about how I used CopyAI to write an article about the benefits of open-source development in under 30 minutes. The article also covers the benefits and drawbacks of AI-written articles.

Last year I wrote a post about testing Laravel Livewire validation rules with PHP Unit. This post uses the same techniques as that post, but shows how to transfer it to Pest instead of PHP Unit.

It's time to replace your mocked event dispatchers with a real one.

If you're running a Laravel application in the 5's, have a legacy application bootstrapped inside Laravel, don't have any tests, or are staring in silent terror at just how long ago your production server's PHP version hit its end-of-life, this post is for you!

Here, we will be looking at how to setup multiple tilwind configurations in a single Laravel project. Sometimes, we may need separate tailwind configurations for our backend and separate for our frontend. In such scenario, it will be very very helpful.

If you've been working with PHP regularly, chances are you've run across an Interface, Trait, or Abstract Class. At first glance, they might appear to have a few similarities between them, and it can be hard to make out their differences and use cases.

Laravel Nova includes a way to generate Trend metrics and display values over time via a line chart. It doesn't however offer a way to generate the future graphs starting from the current date . This packages allows you to generate the graph for the near future.

Laravel Haystack is a package that allows you to have a job chain stored in the database. Since all of the jobs in the chain are in the database, memory usage is low and you can delay jobs for a long time or have long running jobs without risking using all your memory. Laravel Haystack supports every queue connection/worker out of the box. (Database, Redis/Horizon, SQS).

A comprehensive article that explains everything you need to know about Laravel Mail. It contains examples of coding a message in Laravel and testing it with a fake SMTP service.

Learn how I was able to easily scale an application to handle hundreds of millions of jobs using nothing but Laravel, Redis and MySQL

A blog post about an experiment that converts PHP to Rust and is capable of generating native binaries.

Working on a project and created this package as part of that, makes programmatically working with PHPs built-in server a breeze. What do you think?

You'll learn the difference between "tactical" and "strategic" programming, and why choosing the right approach is important in the long run.

A guide on how to use laravel's inbuilt cache system to improve the performance of a laravel application

Before we learn strategies for better software design, we must understand our enemy - complexity. Let’s define complexity, how to spot it, and what causes it.

Technical interview preparation tips from DoorDash Engineering team.

Here's how to automatically find your user's language and let them manually change it.

Personalize enables developers to build applications with the same Machine Learning technology used by Amazon for real time personalised recommendations, and no machine learning experience is required.