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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.

You heard about Laravel but don't know where to start? Don't worry, you found the best starting point for your journey.

Dealing with HTML email building that has CSS in it can be tricky. This article by Mailtrap goes over the most important principles of using CSS in emails as well as showcases examples.

A guide on how to upload files in Laravel using reusable traits and compression package

Get Vite to work with Lando with both http and https sites

In this tutorial I'll show you how to use event listeners to stop outgoing emails just before they're sent.

Here, we will be looking at a hidden trait that is present in Laravel and its name is ForwardsCalls. It allows you to forward a method call to another object with just a simple method.