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A new PhpStorm plugin from a Laravel community member adds Alpine.js support (autocomplete, syntax highlighting, etc).

Searching in Laravel is very easy with Laravel Scout, but it only ships with an Algolia driver. Because Elasticsearch is fun, powerful and can also be self-hosted I created an Elasticsearch driver for Laravel Scout and in this blog post I will explain how to get started.

Editing files on a remote server via SSH with vim, nano, etc. can be tedious and annoying. I feel comfortable with is Sublime. Let me show you how to open and edit remote files comfortably with Sublime directly from your terminal.

A Puppeteer bridge for PHP, supporting the entire API. Based on Rialto, a package to manage Node resources from PHP.

Learn how to build a remaining character counter in Alpine.js using only a few lines of code.

A PSR compliant package that takes a "bring your own components" approach to building SDKs. Simply choose the libraries you want to use, add your resources - and you have an SDK ready to go.

@pestphp @phpstorm plugin overview by @OliverNybroe

Tips and tricks I've learned over the past few years of dealing with multi-gigabyte CSV files.

A post exploring why and how to wrap a request in a database transaction. This is particularly useful for ensuring that you never end up with half your request data persisted when working across multiple and/or related entities in a request.

An awesome database tool I stumbled upon and thought the community should see! Like DataGrip from JetBrains but open source with no paywalls

Statamic v3 released recently and provides a powerful CMS for Laravel developers. In this tutorial we'll build a Statamic site and deploy it using Netlify.

Enforce consistency on your polymorphic relationship models.

Laravel provides great functiontlity for working with uploaded files. But what happens when you need to upload a file from a url rather than from a user's computer? I turns out to be pretty simple.

Ever needed to apply filters on a query conditionally, only when the user actually applies them? Laravel query builder's method when got you covered.

From time to time I find myself in need of invoking private / protected methods, especially when writing unit tests, So I wrote a little helper to handle those situations.

It helps you manage de-normalized tables in your laravel applications. It automatically syncs your normalized tables with source tables using simple configurations.

Sometimes your controllers can get rather large, especially if you have lots of conditions and data formatting. Have you ever considered moving some of that complexity out into a dedicated response class?

The article dives into a couple of methods for customising the email verification expiration time for verification email sent by Laravel for new users. In one case we use the config setting, in the other we override the verificationUrl method to customise how this is generated.

Overview of the new upsert feature in Laravel 8.10, how to use it and some tips.