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How to mount local Laravel package using Docker for development

Solving a problem with timezones from MySQL to ES in Laravel

Let's take a look at how Laravel uses `opis/closure` package to serialize closures while dispatching them to queues.

A DataTables-like package for Inertia, Laravel, and Vue that comes with Tailwind-styled components. You can search through your data, both globally and per attribute. There's support for pagination, sorting, column toggling, and you can predefine filters. Furthermore, it integrates seamlessly with Spatie's Laravel Query Builder.

With the arrival of Laravel 8, new ways for authentication have been added to the Laravel ecosystem. Fortify, Jetstream and Breeze. Although these tools can save you a lot of time, often when you want something more complex they cost you more time. Fortunately, Laravel allows you to add manual auth without the use of any package, just Laravel's core. In this series, we're going to learn how to add manual auth in Laravel.

We're building Franklin as an open source international address input made for the modern web. It comes in two flavors—React and standalone. Just drop it in wherever your users enter mailing addresses to get well-formed data for any country. Franklin is still in an early stage of development, but we'd love feedback and testing from developers around the world (especially if you live outside of the United States).

Let's take a look at how Laravel uses nesbot/carbon package to provide easy API for date and time manipulation.

I explain why the codebase for the GraphQL API for WordPress needs to be hosted on a monorepo, and the optimizations I've made for it. It complements article "Hosting all your PHP packages together in a monorepo".

It describes why we may want to use a monorepo to manage our PHP codebase, and how to do it via the Monorepo Builder library.

Let me demonstrate how simple it is to get a flat-file `User` model going in your Laravel application.

In my opinion, Eloquent is one of the most powerful features of Laravel. It is an API for interacting with your database, and it has a very nice and easy-to-remember syntax. For example: ``` $post->author->name; ``` Will give you the name of the post's author.

Imagine a form to create a new product. Amongst the name, description, and price, you can also attach a category to it. But what if you want to attach a category that doesn't exist yet? We have a dedicated route and component to create new categories, but wouldn't it be great if you could re-use that functionality while the user stays on the product creation page?

Let's take look at how Laravel uses `monolog/monolog` package to create powerful multi-channel logging system

When selling digital products on your website, you may would like that your customers don't have to create an account before they can create a purchase. This behaviour isn't supported by Laravel Cashier by default, but easy to add manually.

If you use the `retry()` functionality of Laravel's HTTP Client, an exception will be thrown if all retries fail. Here's what to do if you would like to receive a response object, instead of having to catch an exception.

Last week I added a nested comments feature to my blog. You can see it at the bottom of this post, where I received a few comments. In [this post](https://www.jeroenvanrensen.nl/blog/uuids-in-laravel), I would like to tell you how I added this feature.

I'm happy to say that Blade Icons is finally hitting its first major stable version.

Umami is a simple open-source alternative to Google Analytics. You can get it moving on Laravel Forge within a few minutes. Moving off GA is allowing you to go without a cookie-message too.

Orbit is a flat-file driver for Laravel Eloquent. It allows you to replace your generic database with real files that you can manipulate using the methods you're familiar with.