Daniel Petrica tells the story of how an unpatched Livewire vulnerability on a forgotten side project exposed Mailcoach API keys and led to 50,000 spam emails being sent. It is a useful reminder to keep dormant apps updated, and a good real-world example of how Docker can limit the blast radius when something goes wrong.
Read more [danielpetrica.com]
In this post, Dries shows how they use Claude Skills to automate repetitive work in client projects, like generating Saloon requests, DTOs, and Livewire pages. It is a practical look at where these workflows save a lot of time, and where careful review still matters.
Read more [spatie.be]
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SlideWire is a Laravel package for building browser-based presentation decks using Livewire components and Blade templates. It comes with built-in navigation, transitions, syntax highlighting, and Mermaid diagrams.
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Michael Dyrynda found that switching from fill() to set() in Livewire tests reduced his test suite from 22 seconds to 4 seconds. The difference: fill triggers a Livewire round-trip per field, while set batches them into one.
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– youtu.be - submitted by Bert De Swaef
Livewire 4 introduces powerful new features that make building Laravel applications even better.
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At Laracon US Caleb Porzio announced Livewire 4, which comes with unified components, performance improvements, and many more awesome goodies
Read more [devdojo.com]
If you held an individual Spatie employee at gunpoint (please don't) and forced them to pick a favorite, you'll get a 50/50 split. But when we look at the choice at hand as a team, it becomes easier to determine the right fit.
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– nabilhassen.com - submitted by Nabil Hassen
Learn about the 23 powerful Laravel and Livewire PHP Attributes.
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A nice real-world example on how you can add Reverb to an existing Laravel app
Read more [laradir.com]
We’ve published a new package called livewire-filepond, which contains a component to easily upload files.
Under the hood, Filepond, a powerful JavaScript library to upload files, is used.
– wire-elements.dev - submitted by Philo
Livewire Strict helps enforce security measures and prevents you from having unprotected sensitive public properties.
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In this post, we'll walk through some optimistic UI tricks we apply when using Laravel with Livewire and Alpine to capture the best of both worlds.
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– aleksandertabor.com - submitted by Aleksander Tabor
Learn how to use objects like Data Transfer Objects in Livewire with Wireables.
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– myray.app - submitted by Spatie
Discover how we've updated our new Ray docs!
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– wire-elements.dev - submitted by Philo
Wire Extender allows you to embed any Livewire component on any website or even within a static HTML file.
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– srwiez.com - submitted by Eser DENIZ
I like to use the findOrFail() function in Livewire methods that call actions. But I really don't like the default behaviour of Livewire showing a modal view with a 404. Let me show you how to personalise that.
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– fly.io - submitted by Johannes Werbrouck
Having reusable input components is great. Knowing how to make them is even better! Follow along to see how we can create a generic TextInput component with a fluent interface that can be reused everywhere with just a few lines of code. While it won’t be a Livewire component, it can still make use of wire:model and other Livewire goodies. How is that possible? Read on to find out!
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– wire-elements.dev - submitted by Philo
Livewire's Session Properties is a simple yet powerful feature for enhancing user experience and maintaining state across page refreshes.
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– wire-elements.dev - submitted by Philo
Let's take a look at how we can refresh our component when events occur using the new #[On] attribute.
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– youtu.be - submitted by Bert De Swaef
in this video, we're transforming our load more button functionality to an infinite scroll using Alpine.js and more specifically we're using x-intersect to trigger our loadMore function.
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