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When someone comes to you with a question to do something, instead of blindly doing the ask, take a step back and try to understand what they actually want to achieve. Often this task might actually not be the best way to achieve the goal they are set out to do.

Learn how to use SQL generated columns and database views in Laravel to simplify queries, boost performance, and make your data easier to filter, sort, and reuse across your application.

🚴‍♂️ Build a Full Stack App with Laravel + React! In this tutorial, you'll create a Laravel Headless API and connect it to a React frontend to display 2025 Tour de France etappes (stages).

The pipe operator will improve your code readability and composition in PHP. Understand the current approach and what future will look like.

useful and interesting open source developer tools.

Have you ever been on a website and navigated between pages, only to notice that the layout shifts slightly because the scrollbar suddenly appears on longer pages?

Learn how to implement & test Laravel Socialite endpoints, handle edge cases, and mock providers.

You're three months into a new job when someone mentions "we have a dozen different branches for our customers." Learn how to escape the custom code nightmare with four proven patterns that actually scale, plus real Laravel examples.

This article continues the series on integrating Trix with Laravel by focusing on user mentions using the Rich Text Laravel package. It walks through adding a Tribute.js-powered mention picker in the editor, implementing back-end support via an AttachableContract and Signed Global IDs, and even scaffolds a notification system to email mentioned users.

Learn how to deploy your Inertia Vue SSR worker to the Cloudflare Workers platform without breaking a sweat.

The Laravel Action Pattern organizes business logic into reusable, testable classes. It enables context-independent actions for maintainable code.

The term "coroutine" often comes up when talking about asynchronous or non-blocking code, but what does it actually mean? In this post, we will explore coroutines as a concept and see how PHP supports them through Generators and Fibers.

Making a visually appealing range input based on Laravel Cloud's design, native HTML and only a few lines of JavaScript.

An ESLint plugin I wrote for linting PHP files. Aims to provide a better linting experience than PHP CodeSniffer.

Read about how you can verify that a URL is a signed URL in your Laravel tests.

Open source CLI tools for developers.

Learn how to reduce your database queries by passing an instance of "Illuminate\Database\Query\Builder" to the "whereIn" method of your queries.