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Self-less plug here. I was reading a Smalltalk book and researching on the roots of OOP, and I found some cool references that backs up using Actions (which is a topic you folks seem to like).

There might be sometimes that you want to use Laravel query builder instead of the Eloquent either because of performance issues or the complexity of the query. The first problem you might have seen using the query builder could be hard coding the table names everywhere you want to use the query.

In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to configure the Gmail SMTP server with Laravel. Usually, when you want to send emails you have to pay for some service. But using the Gmail server you can do it for free!

Laravel Jetstream comes jam-packed with lots of great features but some people struggle to change the logo in their application. Let me show you how it can be done in 2 simple steps.

Use this Docker container to easily validate your webpage against SEO best practices.

Great, you want to develop a package. You want to use your favorite stack: the LIT stack, but... How do you even use Laravel Mix and Inertia.js inside a Laravel package?

This package contains Vue 2 and Vue 3 plugins to make sending data to Ray from within your Vue components easy.

This article describes how a GraphQL schema that exposes data from WordPress, does not need to match 1 to 1 with the WordPress data model, and how the GraphQL API for WordPress takes advantage of this, to fix some of the technical debt from WordPress concerning the data access layer.

Laravel-Mailto allows you to generate mailto-links with recipients, cc and bcc, subject and body. If an user clicks the link it opens the default mail editor prefilled with data. This comes in handy if you want your users to have the ability to send emails from their own client.

npm package for debugging NodeJS code with Ray

I made a small Github action to trigger Ploi deployments. With this action the user has more control, for example only deploy if all tests succeed or when a new release tag has been made.

Let me show you how some of Puny's internal codebase works and why I'm in love with it.

Across two jobs, and a number applications, I've been using Inertia JS to create great SPA experiences with ease. Recently, I gave a talk at the Brisbane Laravel Meetup on what Inertia is, some of its features, and why I think it is a great choice for building SPAs.

A look at some of the many challenges of implementing a reliable and highly-performant client-side WebSocket solution in PHP.

Learn how you can easily automate EC2 instance start/stop with cloud watch and system manager automation.

Modals can be a pain in the ass, but there's no way around them. I'm currently working on an application where we need them. Whilst working with Inertia.js and Vue.js we have many options available, let's have a look how I solved this issue.

It explains how we can make PHP-Scoper work with WordPress (a real challenge!), based on my own experience with plugin GraphQL API for WordPress (as a result, the plugin can be finally uploaded to wp.org 🎉)

In this example we are going to make a console command to import some products into our database from a csv file and then test they are all added as expected.

As I look back over what’s almost a decade in software development, there are some things I wish I’d started doing sooner. This is the advice I’d give my younger self, who has just landed their first professional software development job.

Laser Stack is local Laravel development stack powered by docker like Laravel Sail and multi-project like Valet. Aims to be small and fast. It's opinionated: it does not support everything under the sun but you can customize the container to suit your needs. It supports macOS, WSL2 (Windows) and Linux and it needs docker. Laser has a shell script around docker-compose as an interface to it, it exposes all docker-compose commands and extends it with it's own subcommands and recognizes which project you want to use by the current directory when you call `laser artisan` for example. More on https://github.com/sdbruder/laserstack