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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.

In your Livewire components, you might want to display dates in the browser's timezone. In this post, I explore how you could achieve this.

Ever needed to schedule an `artisan` command from one of your Laravel packages but couldn't figure out how to do it? Let me show you!

If you've recently been invited to a Laravel interview, or you want to improve your skills about this framework, in 80 questions, we are going to discover more about Laravel. 😉

Learn why, when and how to structure your data as a cluster of nodes and how to execute various operations on that cluster via external visitors.

Let's take look at how Laravel uses `league/flysystem` package to create a robust file storage system.

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.

Here are some hot tips for mapping large datasets on Google Maps, without sacrificing performance.

Let's find out how markdown emails are rendered in Laravel.

Jason Bahl recently proposed 3 approaches to integrating the WordPress editor with decoupled applications, via GraphQL. I propose a 4th approach, based on the COPE ("Create Once, Publish Everywhere") strategy, which can possibly avoid the need to create a server-side registry.

A code dive blogpost about how email address validation works in Laravel.

Learn how to get the previous and next record in a Laravel application to navigate around easily

Learn how Laravel Redis queued jobs can be deleted

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.

Implementing content-visibility: auto and the problem that followed soon after

If you're running your queue workers on a server with limited resources it's important to ration the resource used by those workers.

Intro to Jetstream + Vue for devs used to blade

In my journey of exploring each Laravel dependency, `cron-expression` package is today's topic. Let's see how Laravel uses it in Task scheduling.

In my previous post, I told why you shouldn't expose your default incrementing IDs, because of security and other issues. Luckily there are some solutions for this problem: slugs and UUIDs.

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.