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This blog post is about a (failed) attempt at introducing dark mode for our logo SVG's in the readme files of our open source libraries at Laravel.

Use MySQL indexing to improve the query performance.

Here are a few tips and tricks that you can use in your Alpine 3.x components.

Introduced in Pest 1.4, we now have Higher Order Expectations in our toolkit. These allow us to access properties and methods from the expectation value itself, rather than accessing them ahead of time.

Sending API requests in any PHP framework has always been a little bit of a manual process, yes you can create an SDK or wrapper - but you are still having to do the same thing. *Introducing Laravel Transporter* an easy to use wrapper around Laravel `PendingRequest` that allows you to define requests as classes, and override options at run time when you need to.

The most powerful and extendable tools for managing SEO Meta Tags in your Laravel project.

Build API requests as classes using sensible defaults, simply `make:api-request RequestName` configure it to your requirements - and send as required.

How callbacks can help you preform assertions in your mocks.

Testing validation rules can become quite tiresome pretty quickly if you have to write each test manually. Luckily I’ve found a nice method that allows you to simplify your validation rule tests when using Laravel Livewire components.

The Laravel Commonmark Blog package now supports: - embargo (scheduling articles to be published after a certain date) and - caching of all generated articles to use them in sidebars, footers, etc.

Quickly identify controller methods with no route in your Laravel applications.

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Streamline and minimize your UI by customizing a BooleanGroup.

Sidecar packages, creates, deploys, and executes Lambda functions from your Laravel application. You can write functions in any of the following runtimes and execute them straight from PHP: Node.js 14, Node.js 12, Node.js 10, Python 3.8, Python 3.7, Python 3.6, Python 2.7, Ruby 2.7, Ruby 2.5, Java 11, Java 8, Go 1.x, .NET Core 3.1, .NET Core 2.1.

Fixing an issue with index size in Laravel

Tighten employees share encouragement for anyone struggling through the pandemic.

An in-depth guide on offset and cursor pagination in Laravel, and the pros and cons of each.

A few months ago a conversation around queued jobs hammering a database came up due to Laravel’s SerializesModels trait. While aware of the issue, I wasn't sure of the specifics. Digging deeper, I was extremely surprised by how relations are handled. Here are the findings and a few workarounds when queueing relations.

Have you ever needed to work with a 3rd.party API in Laravel, and not been sure how best to do it? In this article I walk you through how I integrate with the PingPing API to provide a predictable and testable integration

Some best practices and tips for composing high quality pull requests when contributing to open source projects.