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Do you want a start testing your PHP applications? You got lucky - Nuno's talk at @LaraconEU 2020 about PEST just went up, check it out!

Supports validation, model binding, default values, translations, includes default vendor styling and is fully customizable!

When writing code, every keystroke counts. Mastering shortcuts or using snippets for your text editor or IDE will save you a significant amount of time in the long run. In this article, I will show you how to create snippets for my favourite text editor, Sublime Text.

This Laravel package allows you to search through multiple Eloquent models. It supports sorting, pagination, scoped queries, eager load relationships and searching through single or multiple columns.

Learn how you can sort your eloquent model queries by default.

While building my website, I struggled with making decisions about what tools to use. In this article, I share the tools I used and my rationale for using them. Hopefully, I am going to save someone the agony of making the same decision.

package to automatically collects emails as they are sent and stores them in a database. The package also provides a clean UI to display the emails.

Easily organize larger Laravel code bases with modules. Relies heavily on existing Composer and Laravel features so that you can utilize a more domain-oriented project structure without losing the value of existing Laravel conventions.

How eloquent eager loading saved me lots of unnecessary database queries and how it can save you too.

Code reusability is a big thing to consider when working on larger applications, but have you ever considered using synchronous jobs?

Join me as I go through some strange and unconventional things that you can do in your Laravel applications, starting with auto-validating Laravel models.

I’ve recently added Spatie’s Laravel Dashboard to a backend admin app and didn’t realize it is configured as a full webpage already, which was a problem given I couldn't just plug it into my existing page layout.

I recently quit my job and went self-employed. Here's a breakdown of how it went, and things I'd change

This package allows you to add default sorting column to your eloquent model.

Accessing the web from PHP can done easier. PHPScraper is an opinionated wrapper around some great PHP libraries.

Back in 1785, a Frenchman named Valentin Haüy founded the Institute for Blind Youth in Paris…

Why and how we refactored to Livewire polling and replaced the event-driven WebSockets approach.

I wrote a short bit about the new release for Blade Icons and its new features.

A Twitter megathread with clean code tactics for Laravel.