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The Visitor Pattern opens up your entities to extension without changing them (much); and keeps the code separate.

Security is always a concern when you are developing a web application but fortunately, tools like the Laravel framework provide us with a lot of good practices and excellent features. This article dives into the Laravel security features and other out-of-the-box practices to help you understand how to better protect your applications.

Bugs caused by race conditions can be a huge source or frustration. They are difficult to identify and often difficult to remedy.

The Laravel team released so many great Laravel 8.x updates over the last year, it's incredible! I wrote a series of blog posts highlighting some of the best new features and improvements. Today: Collections.

CDNs are crucial for fast content delivery. Here is a blog post with the step-by-step guide on how to use Digital Ocean Spaces and the Digital Ocean CDN through Laravel | Light-it

Laravel doesn't support MongoDB by default, but that doesn't mean you can’t use them together. This comprehensive guide will walk you through the entire process of setting up Laravel with MongoDB to use as a drop-in replacement for your existing database management system.

The article attempts to demystify concepts like, dependency injection, inversion of control, the service container, and finally the service providers.

Here's how I shaved several dozen ms of latency from my Laravel app. Some of the following steps are well-known, but a few took me a while to figure out.

Learn how to get the previous and next records in Laravel using the record name or title to display links on the front-end to allow users to navigate easily

For Artisan School, I wanted to create custom Open Graph images for each video page. When somebody shares a link on social media, platforms like Facebook and Twitter use the OG image to represent the shared link. I'll show you how to use Browsershot and Tailwind CSS to generate and save the OG images.

I’ve created a list of useful tips, tricks and links related to PHP, Laravel, Vue, MySQL etc. that I’ve found on the internet and will be updating it regularly as I find more content over time.

A recording of the process involved for doing Laravel's weekly open-source releases.

In this post I want to introduce you to Tree structures. What they are, how you can use them, and in which situation they can be helpful.

Apart from the traditional form-based authentication approach, Laravel comes with two dedicated packages for API authentication - Laravel Passport & Laravel Sanctum. This in-depth guide will show you all of the essentials of API authentication by using Laravel Passport.

How to create a multi-worksheet Excel file using Spatie's Simple Excel package

If you’re building an admin panel, chances are that you will need to display the data in some tabular format. Writing every time - table, tr, td is a little bit cumbersome, when we need our work to be done quickly. In this blog post, we’ll see how we can build a simple reusable table component with Laravel Bade Components, AlpineJs and TailwindCSS.

A small Laravel package for easily adding pages by creating Markdown or Blade files inside the codebase.

The Adapter pattern and the Bridge Pattern have brought along a lot of confusion. Time to connect the dots.

Learn how to deploy a Laravel App on an unmanaged Virtual Private Server from this step-by-step guide. It comes with a GitHub source code link to further help you out.

Reusable search autocomplete build with the power of laravel blade component along with Alpine.js and TailwindCSS.