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I’ll start publishing a monthly review of how the GraphQL API plugin is doing: progress on the financial goals, number of downloads, strategies to engage contributors, others. This is the first edition, for March '21.

While developing your applications, you might want to see the list of the packages that have available updates, so that you can easily check if you want to update them.

How you can leverage DNSControl and GitHub Actions to make DNS configuration a breeze.

By default, every Laravel model has an incrementing ID. Although this makes things very easy, there are some security reasons why you shouldn't be exposing this ID to your users. In this article, I'm going to explain why.

Informing Bing search engine about new or updated content on your website using PHP / Laravel

When distributing console commands in a package or within an application, making sure data is in the correct format can be important. Let's build a `make:user` command that takes advantage of Laravel's validation helpers.

Security precautions Composer already has, and what you can do to improve them further.

Building your JS/CSS assets for production without pulling your hair out.

Here's a twitter thread that shares 100 Laravel tips on performance, security and reliability over 100 days!

Airdrop is a Laravel package that speeds up your deploys by skipping asset compilation when possible.

A series of 30 videos, delivered every day through e-mail, containing Laravel tips and tricks.

Integrating Laravel Spark and Statamic 3 (with the Cool Writings Starter Kit) to develop a subscription site that allows a mix of free and premium content.

In this tutorial, we’ll be looking at how to get started using Pest in a Laravel project. Using the test-driven approach, we’ll be building a simple to-do application that allows you to create, edit, update and delete tasks.

Your project contains a REST API and you want to document that REST API. But how do you do that? In this post, I will explain how you can solve this problem using OpenAPI, Stoplight Studio, and Swagger UI.

Save your codebase from naive primitive types no more (int, string, etc..) but meaningful types...

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.