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Caching the entire response of a Laravel app original

by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read

When a request comes in your app will return a response. To create that response, your application has to do some work. Most likely queries will execute. This all takes some time. Wouldn't it be nice if the same request comes in, we can return the response the application has constructed previously?

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Why I prefer React over Vue

sebastiandedeyne.com

My colleague Seb gives some good reasons why he personally likes working with React over Vue.

Vue is the default JavaScript framework for Laravel apps. Being part of the Laravel community, I often get the question why I prefer React, so I've decided to write down a few standout reasons.

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Implementing event sourcing: aggregates original

by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read

Recently we've released v2 of laravel-event-projector. The package is probably the easiest way to get started with event sourcing in Laravel.

One of the prominent new features is support for aggregates. While creating v2, I found it surprising that such a powerful concept could be implemented in so little code. In this short blog post, I'd like to explain how aggregates are coded up.

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When to use Gate::after in Laravel original

by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read

In a Laravel app policies are a great way to organize authorization logic that revolves around models.

For the longest time, I've been using Gate::before to allow superadmins to do anything they want. While working on a new app, it finally clicked how Gate::after can be useful too. I'd like to share that knowledge in this blog post.

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Unsafe SQL functions in Laravel

stitcher.io

My colleague Brent offers some more details on the intricacies of Laravel's query builder.

I recently learned that not all query builder functionality in Laravel is "safe". This means that user input shouldn't be passed directly to it, as it might expose your application to SQL injection vulnerabilities.

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