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It may only be a side effect of its colour palette and class naming conventions, but as a colourblind developer, Tailwind has made it SO EASY to design with sensible colours - a superpower I've been missing my whole life

A PHP package to measure the width of unicode strings rendered to a terminal.

Laravel Config Validator v2.8.0 adds support for Laravel 12, PHPUnit 11, and Larastan 3.

This simple step-by-step guide teaches you how to deploy your Laravel project to Laravel Cloud! We'll cover everything from setup to handling queues for background tasks. What you'll learn: ✅ Deploying a Laravel project to the cloud ✅ Setting up and managing queues ✅ Optimizing performance for scalability

A fluent, modular workflow builder for Laravel that leverages the Pipeline pattern to simplify and organise business logic.

Discover how to manage 404 errors in Laravel by creating custom fallbacks.

Read about how to use the `Illuminate\Console\Prohibitable` trait to prevent destructive commands from running in your Laravel application. We'll also look at how to prevent your own custom Artisan commands from running using this trait.

Want to deploy your Laravel project on Forge with real-time WebSockets using Reverb? In this step-by-step tutorial, we’ll walk you through setting up Laravel Forge, configuring your server, and integrating Reverb for real-time communication. Whether you're building a chat app, notifications system, or live updates, this guide will help you get everything running smoothly.

Learn how to install and configure Typesense in a Laravel app, then optimize search by sorting records, using filters, adjusting typo tolerance, accessing raw responses, and leveraging facets for better filtering.

A tutorial for loading an image as soon as it enters the viewport, using the Intersect plugin of the AlpineJS framework.

Laravel 11.42 introduces new date query methods, making it easier to filter records by relative dates like past, future, today, and more.

A new Laravel package to protect sensitive routes or actions with a confirmation-screen and ask for the two-factor authentication code of a user.

Inspired by a Tweet from Christoph Rumpel asking for best practises for importing huge CSV files, I did a write up about how I've imported (so far) 1.7 billion rows of CSV data from Stripe using their API.

Tackling scalability challenges unorthodoxly in large monoliths with strategies like multi-application infrastructure, circuit fuse, and hybrid DB optimization.

This article covers installing Rich Text Laravel and Trix in a Laravel app, adding rich text attributes to models, migrating existing content from plain text, and integrating Trix’s file attachment feature with Laravel.

Set up type-safe routes and data objects in your React frontend with Momentum Trail and Spatie's Laravel Data.

Over this blog series, we'll utilize the PHP Laravel framework and its built-in tools to build a robust CLI application to interface with YNAB's API.

Five essential Artisan commands that should be part of every deployment workflow: `optimize:clear`, `optimize`, `queue:restart`, `schedule:interrupt`, and `schedule:clear-cache`.