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The community project Laravel Zero 8.x is now available! Uses Laravel 8.x behind the scenes, adds GitLab support for self-updates, and more!

PEST v0.3 is now released! It features a new expectation API, a brand new PHPStorm plugin, and more!

What makes a software development team "good"? Sara Bine shares our team's gold standard for health, happiness, and productivity.

An approach you can use to combine multiple tightly coupled utilities together into a new compound utility class.

PHP Add Property is a extension to manage your PHP class properties for VS Code. The first stable version has been released with new features: edit properties (rename and change types), remove properties and more.

Reusability is important when it comes to scaling projects and future-proofing the maintainability of a project. Let's take a look at how you can write more re-usable components in Alpine.

Adds a little `$clipboard` helper to Alpine.js that makes copying data to the clipboard simpler.

A simple Laravel package for generating download links with options such as expire time, IP restrictions, etc.

New open source plugin to convert WordPress into a GraphQL server

Spruce is a global state management library for Alpine.js that can make inter-component reactivity a cinch.

With Laravel 8 coming soon, Nuno just released Collision v5.0. Let's see the changes merged into this release...

Helper methods can be, well, helpful. Did you know that you can actually write helper methods in your Livewire classes and use them really easily in your Blade views?

We all come across tasks that are repetitive and probably struggle to find ways of making them more re-usable in our Alpine components. Since v2.5 we can register custom magic variables that can help us out with that.

Check out the mind blowing result of changing FPM to Swoole

A curated list of awesome things related to the TALL stack.

Blog post with some practical tips on how to deal with failing and failed jobs.

Time-Driven Development is challenging current views on what a best practice is and puts it more in the context of saving time and increasing efficiency of development teams.

Named arguments will be added in PHP 8

I've been writing an artisan command to import data from a remote MySQL database. I can only connect to that database over an SSH connection using an SSH key. Here is an explanation of how to accomplish that.

Hi Freek! I like very much your newsletter. Some days ago I wrote an article about how to start using GitHub Actions. In the article I included an example of a Laravel application. If you find it interesting enough it would be great if you would include it in your newsletter. Thanks and keep on with the good work you are doing in the newsletter. @danielvigueras