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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 ;)

Don't you know how the real visitors of your website experience your website? Find out what Real User Monitoring is and how you can use it to improve the user experience.

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.