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Geocodio shares practical advice on getting engineering teams to adopt AI tools like Claude Code, addressing the growing gap between eager adopters and skeptical engineers.

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The State of PHP 2025 survey by JetBrains examines how developers use, prefer, and rely on PHP, showing how this long-standing web language continues to modernize through new frameworks, improved tooling, and AI-assisted workflows.

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Let's check out how we can improve working with Livewire and Vite together, by using the Vite Livewire Plugin by Fabio Ivona.

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We are currently rebuilding the Oh Dear website and application frontend. In this post, you'll read more about the project setup and tools used.

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Tony Messias has ported a cool feature from Rails to Laravel.

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My colleague Seb quickly explains how to use chokidar

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Vite is a frontend build tool like webpack. Instead of bundling development assets, Vite serves native ES modules transpiled with esbuild from the dev server. This means there’s a lot less bundling to do, and results in a very fast developer experience.

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Mahak Narayan Singh explains how Babel does it's job.

Have you ever thought how this awesome tool which you use in your daily life works under the hood? How does compilers you use in our daily life work? Do you need your own customized compilation? You should find this article beneficial then.

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Here's a great story by Collin O'Dell, maintainer of league/commonmark amongst other things, on how he was able to extract the class definitions out of obfuscated PHP source files.

Per the framework's license, decrypting the IonCube-protected code was not allowed. This meant it was impossible to recover the original source code. However, I could require those files and execute them in PHP, which would cause those classes to become usable in code. So how does one figure out what code just got loaded & executed?

https://www.colinodell.com/blog/201708/generating-ide-stubs-ioncube-encoded-classes

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Sebastian De Deyne, my colleague and all round wizard at Spatie, wrote a new blogpost on how we use Babel.

A lot has been going in in JavaScript the past few years. One of my favorite things has been the usage of babel, which allows us to write future JavaScript syntax today. The babel ecosystem has tons of plugins and configuration options, I'd like to elaborate on our usage at Spatie.

https://sebastiandedeyne.com/posts/2017/whats-in-our-babelrc

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In a new post on his blog Sebastian De Deyne, multi disciplinary wizard at Spatie, explains how to set up TypeScript in a typical Laravel app.

In a recent Spatie project we decided to give TypeScript a shot for the business critical part of a new application. TypeScript provides static analysis to reduce the chance of introducing bugs, to have self-documenting code, and to improve our tooling (autocompletion!)

Adding TypeScript support is pretty straight forward and is done in three steps: install the necessary dependencies, configure TypeScript, and finally configure Laravel Mix.

https://sebastiandedeyne.com/posts/2017/typescript-with-laravel-mix

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For various reasons we recently switched from using Laravel Elixir to Webpack. My colleague Sebastian was in charge of this migration. He shares his experiences in the very first post on his new blog.

Over the past few weeks I've been migrating our asset pipeline at Spatie from Laravel Elixir (a gulp wrapper) to webpack. Between having endless possibilities, the occasional incomplete section in the docs, and the fact that everyone has slightly different needs for their asset pipeline (which makes examples hard), it has surely been an adventure. I'm going to do a quick summary of my goals, and how I achieved them with webpack. Hopefully there will be some useful snippets in here for when you're setting up your own webpack configuration.

If want to read a more introductory article on the subject check out this post by Samantha Geitz.

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Maxime Fabre wrote a comprehensive tutorial on Webpack on the madewithlove-blog.

... Is Webpack a build system or a module bundler? Well, it's both– and by this I don't mean that it does both I mean that it combines both. Webpack doesn't build your assets, and then separately bundle your modules, it considers your assets to be modules themselves.

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