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Have you ever used a service provider to set a default value for a third-party library? Have you ever done this based on the current request or URL? Have you ever considered doing this inside of middleware instead?

A quick look at how you can configure your GitHub Actions workflows to only run when a certain phrase is present in the commit message.

This package has a trait that you can add to a Form Request to convert base64 input data to files.

Extension to provide instant access to Tailwind support in mix builds. mix.taiwind(). Work seamlessly with spatie/laravel-mix-purgecss. Forge that import notice ;) https://github.com/spatie/laravel-mix-purgecss#important-notice-for-mixpostcss-or-postcssconfigjs-users

Marje Holmstrom-Sabo describes Tighten's intent and successes this year in facilitating sponsorship of hundreds of Laracon Online tickets.

In view of upcoming Hacktoberfest, I want to share some tips for beginners who might want to make their first contribution specifically to a PHP package. From my own experience, I know it can look daunting to work on a package as opposed to a "regular" (Laravel) application.

A quick intro on how to use states for "nested" Database Factories. The examples covers the Models created by laravel/cashier-paddle package.

Laravel makes use of the internal `Pipeline` class and it's more common in userland too, but have you ever considered tidying up these pipeline processes with custom pipeline classes?

it's a tip for calling afterCreating methods outside configure() method in laravel 8

Now that Laravel 8 no longer uses the Login Controller with AuthenticatesUser trait, how do we include our own logic in the login process so that we can direct the user differently based on who they are.

There can be an unlimited number of Gmail addresses for a single Gmail account. This package offers a way to check how unique one really is.

Backblaze B2 is an alternative to AWS S3 for storage. Laravel's filesystem can be easily modified to use B2.

Lasso is a Laravel package designed to make your deployments easier by compiling and uploading your assets to the cloud.

When writing an end-to-end test, it is tricky to force the application to use a certain (fake) date. In this post, I share my approach using a custom middleware to be able to write Cypress tests while your application state uses a specific (fake) date.

The community project Laravel Zero 8.x is now available! Uses Laravel 8.x behind the scenes, adds GitLab support for self-updates, and more!

PEST v0.3 is now released! It features a new expectation API, a brand new PHPStorm plugin, and more!

What makes a software development team "good"? Sara Bine shares our team's gold standard for health, happiness, and productivity.

An approach you can use to combine multiple tightly coupled utilities together into a new compound utility class.

PHP Add Property is a extension to manage your PHP class properties for VS Code. The first stable version has been released with new features: edit properties (rename and change types), remove properties and more.

Reusability is important when it comes to scaling projects and future-proofing the maintainability of a project. Let's take a look at how you can write more re-usable components in Alpine.