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Introducing a new Laravel package that allows you to re-use scopes as a boolean attribute on Eloquent models.

Splitting up a large Laravel Livewire component into more manageable and maintainable chunks

Setting up Laravel on a new (Intel Based, for now) Mac can be hard. Here's a quick setup guide to get you building your next project!

Yes, it's true. The Core Web Vitals will become part of the ranking factors for Google's Search Result in May 2021.

PHP 8 release of this major version means significant changes, new features but also performance improvements. PHP 8 also brings a nice range of new features such as the JIT compiler, union types, attributes, and more.

A collection of helper methods for testing and debugging API endpoints.

In this post, I'll show you the best way to deploy your current Laravel application from local to Heroku with the Postgres database. It's quick and easy.

This is an elementary library for working on identifying similar strings in PHP without using machine learning. It allows you to get groups of one topic from the transferred set of sentences. For example, combine news headlines from different publications, as Google News does.

Laravel Breeze is a shiny new package released by Taylor and the Laravel team.

I needed to display only the first picture from my Product's model media collection and found my app running five queries and hydrating 16 models with only four products to display 😱 . Here's how I ended with only two queries and eight models.

Opinionated php-cs-fixer rules that can be shared across projects, along with preconfigured Finder classes for Laravel projects/packages/composer packages/etc. Preset rules can be customized. Reduces the amount of code in `.php_cs` to only a few lines.

Step-by-step guide on using Rector and GitHub Actions to downgrade a WordPress plugin, from PHP 7.4 (when coding) to 7.1 (for deployment)

Markdown is a great way of making notes, writing articles and generally managing content. Let's take a look at how quickly you can begin using Markdown in your PHP applications.

A comparison of PHP Code Coverage tools, their performance, and features.

Work with the new Laravel Envoyer API with ease inside your project using the Laravel Envoyer SDK

dotenvdiff is a command-line tool that allows you to compare the differences in environment variables between two .env (or .env.example) files. Its main use case is to find out if the .env.example has changed in your project, so you can update your .env accordingly.

A small article about my experience with APIs, when you may want to consider building your app with an API or without it, or maybe you need a GraphQL server? let's find out!

The Eloquent ORM that comes with Laravel makes it incredibly easy to interact with a database. It is like Eloquent models themselves; relationships also serve as essential query builders, representing the relationships as methods provide powerful method chaining and querying capabilities.

In this short tutorial, we will show you how you can add a GDPR compliant cookie popup to your Laravel site. By using the https://github.com/42coders/eu-cookie-consent package ;)