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Notes for deploying Laravel WebSockets + SPA (Laravel Echo + Passport) on different servers.

A quick article + calculator for figuring out php-fpm configuration options.

Some useful TestResponse macros you can use to help make your tests more robust and meaningful when analysing content on the page.

In this blog post I described my experience with GitHub actions, what problem I encountered with the mysql service, and how it was solved.

Some tips when dealing with lots of macros in Laravel, and composing them into mixin classes elegantly.

This is a small series where I describe how we handle more than 100 different client projects with different dependencies. An example how we handle our Laravel projects is explained in detail.

If you're sending HTTP requests and don't care about their response, a fire and forget request over a socket can improve performance.

This article explains how you can backup your Laravel website and database to DigitalOcean Spaces with spatie backup.

I have written a Visual Studio Code extension to quickly add PHP class properties. All feedback is welcome!

This package provides loading of RESTful paginated resources using Laravel LazyCollection capabilities. In this way, no complicate mechanisms for on-demand paginated data handling is required because the package manages all the complexity transparently for you, and only if required.

I wrote a small piece about what keeps me productive and how I use and tackle todos.

LaravelVisitor is a Visitor Design Pattern implementation for Laravel. It allows to easily execute processing of collections of arbitrary elements, without requiring to use repeated conditionals, thus improving code abstraction.

Getting localized dates in PHP and Laravel is quite easy once you know how it works. Just setting the locale in app/config.php seems not to do the trick.

In the age of internet tracking, more users are turning to blocker software for protection. Sara Bin shares some tips to improve your website's UX for these users—and everyone else!

API caching on the client side is a very useful and powerful way to speed up your clients and to reduce the load on your API endpoints and the underlying hardware.

Very often you find yourself in situations where you need to make your data pass some kind of checks or filters before doing something with them. This post shows how to make a first attempt approach better and cleaner

I built a package to check what are the slowest tests in your PHPUnit test suite.

This article is the result of my 8 years of experience with PhpStorm and my best settings that make you a faster developer and let you focus more on the important things.

Disabling client-side browser validation will allow you to test your real validation rules, instead of Chrome's.

This is a package for creating administration-style applications with the Laravel framework. Allows you to abstract the common patterns of business applications, so that developers can easily implement beautiful and elegant interfaces without much effort. The main places of application are: backoffice applications, admin panels, content management systems, etc.