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Applicant tracking system build with Laravel and Vue including permission setup

Some of my thoughts on open source software design

A small collection of free Tailwind components.

Let's take our reactive function and start reacting to data changes.

Reactive JavaScript frameworks are full of magic. In this series, I'll cover the basics of reactivity in JavaScript, starting with proxies.

An in-depth article on events and their workings within multiple frameworks.

How to test Laravel Blade components, including input components with errors and using Orchestra Testbench.

Learn how to generate QR codes in Laravel 8 and use it to allow for easy access to your content.

One of the many conventions found throughout the Laravel framework is dot notation. Dot notation is the use of dots `.` in strings to represent depth. In many instances, it allows for writing cleaner and more clear code.

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.