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Since working with generators can be a bit tricky if you're new to them, this post offers an intro on how to use them and highlights common pitfalls to avoid.

Laravel Reverb, introduced in Laravel 11, has changed how developers handle real-time communication in their web applications.

Five Lesser-Known But Useful Composer Commands.

Run Laravel jobs in the command-line.

In this episode of the Quick Win Wednesday series, we'll create everything you need in just one simple command. Instead of running multiple commands to create models, policies, controllers, custom requests, migration, and factories, we can simply chain "-a" onto our Artisan command.

Laravel comes with tons of features, but sometimes, you just need to extend it a little bit. I will show you how!

Let's take a look at how to make Laravel Reverb work on Laravel Forge.

A quick tutorial to generate CRUDs in Laravel using Backpack.

In this episode of the Quick Win Wednesday series, we're taking a look at how we can save data without triggering model events. Using SaveQuietly, w're able to update or create record in our database without triggering any events.

LEMP stack is a go-to environment for many PHP-based apps. See how you can install and configure all of the necessary components for running Laravel.

Some fun things you can do with Blade directives.

Learn how to use Ray to test emails in Laravel!

Article that shows us the advantages of creating and using Custom Exceptions over generic ones in PHP

Just a small post about some of the cool things you can do / see in SQLite.

Learn how you can assign a user to an error in Flare!

Read about how to use Pest to add architecture tests for your PHP application and enforce standards such as folder structures, naming conventions, and more.

A pragmatic approach to avoiding early optimizations

Have you ever wondered how Laravel switches between different drivers' implementations? Well, hang tight, we will learn how!

Learn about the differences between thinking in terms of data (CRUD) vs thinking in terms of business processes (behaviour) and how it affects code maintainability.