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Has it ever happened to you that clients were dissatisfied, demanding to know why buying two products priced 149.99€ + 159.99€ was asking their clients to pay 309.99€ instead of 309.98€? We know something about that; that’s why we published our new blog post by our Senior developer Kika. Enjoy!

In Laravel 5.1 the Command Bus was replaced with Dispatchable Jobs, we can still use them but let us also look at how to add a Command Bus.

In this post, Marcus explains the fundamentals of Blade components. A great introduction or review, this post walks you through the process of creating an extensible button component that contains the code common between button types, with additional interactivity powered by Alpine.

Of all of the design patterns you could use in your code, the adapter pattern is one of my all time favourites. It allows you to abstract the implementation to an adapter that implements an interface. so you can switch implementation simply by switching the adapter.

I get asked about API response testing a lot, how should you do it, and where to start. I have a general rule when it comes to testing APIs, and that rule is: "test your code, and your code only". What do I mean by this? Let me explain:

In this article, I will show you how to implement WebSocket service with PHP and Open Swoole.

Using PHPUnit data providers is a succinct way of testing your form's validation rules. This post will show you how.

Choosing a Continuous Integration / Deployment tool to build, test, and deploy your code can be hard due to the wide number of options available. In this article, I describe the main characteristics of three of the most known services.

In a typical Laravel application we are very used to doing things in a certain way, by the book as they say. However there comes a point in the applications lifetime that it is going to be easier to start looking to split this code into Domains so that we can logically group our code. Our first step is to decide what is our domain code and what is our application code, and the simplest way to do that is to keep anything that can be directly accessed from the outside world (as in web, cli or API) inside of the App namespace. From here we can start to define our domain boundaries, try to think of these in broader terms that just “A post must be in the Post domain” as you aren’t solving any problems at that point.

A medium post that describes an approach to testing Laravel query scopes without code duplication.

Aimed at beginners, a basic but detailed overview of how events and listeners work in Laravel, and how you can use them in your own application.

A package to generate hashids for Eloquent models

I have tried my best to explain the concepts of Laravel Ecosystem items on its website with animations and small jokes.

This is a package to make it easy to write tests for Laravel application.

The Middleware Pattern allows you to easily change the input and output of an action; one layer at a time.

In this article, we will build a saas application with a subscription payment model using laravel-permission and laravel cashier (stripe).

Handle Mailgun Webhooks in a Laravel application

Laravel-inspired validation for HTML forms, built for simplicity of use.

A sliding window rate limiter for Laravel

DRY up code by deferring specifics to a callback.