Laravel Daily - From Mix to Vite + 30 More Tutorials

A free lesson from my course about Filament.

If your DB structure seems quite large and unpredictable, maybe it's worth storing the data as a JSON column? Let's take a look at a few examples.

In the automated tests, how to assert if the specific data is present within the Blade variables on the page? Let me show you.

Presenting to you a new package for cleaning up the fields for the old records of your database, to make the DB "lighter".

In this video, I will go through one Laravel API Controller and suggest some improvements. Would you add anything else?

I really liked one quote from Freek van Der Herten from Spatie, and decided to expand on it, in this video.

The Laravel team has been working hard on a Vite integration for Laravel. As of this week, Vite is now the default frontend asset bundler in new Laravel projects with updates to Breeze and Jetstream as well:

Laravel's default asset bundler is about to switch from Laravel Mix (Webpack) to a wrapper around Vite. I've had a crack at migrating over early starting with some older apps that still use Vue with inline templates and Sass.

Vite is the Next Generation Frontend Tooling, which is Laravel's default from now on. The Laravel documentation contains an entire section explaining how it works and how to use it. But most of us are more interested in using it in an existing project. So that's what this post is for.

Yesterday, the Laravel team launched the official vite-plugin. From now on, Vite will be the standard build tool for Laravel. The main benefits are vastly improved build times and a more straightforward API. Want to know more about it? Head over to the official docs.

Yesterday, the Laravel team released the vite-plugin. Going forward, Vite will become the standard build tool for Laravel apps. One of the cool features of this Vite integration is that you'll get hot reloading by default.

Learn Test-Driven Development with Laravel.

Laravel provides a flexible way of using different "disks" or filesystems to store files. This means you can store files locally in a path relative to your code or using a remote storage solution such as Amazon S3.

If you are a user of zsh and you want to make it easier to use artisan commands, then just install the zsh-artisan plugin. Installation instructions can be found here.

JSON has what? How do you make sure that the data is correct? Now I knew xml has dtd and even other type definition formats... but reading XML is a pain in the ass. It never occurred to me, that the type definition makes it so "great".

Social images are a great way to make your links stand out on social media. Add a link to an image in your page's meta tag and most platforms will automatically show it.

This package makes your endpoints idempotent easily. Check out this Stripe Blog Post about Idempotency.

Eloquent Castable attributes are one of the more powerful features of Laravel; some people use them religiously while others tend to shy away from them. In this tutorial, I will walk through a few different examples of using them and, most importantly, why you should be using them.

Mohammed Samgan Khan ~ 138 views What is laravel pint as in the defination by the official repository, Laravel Pint is an opinionated PHP code style fixer for minimalists. Pint is built on top of PHP-CS-Fixer and makes it simple to ensure that your code style stays clean and consistent.

Are you using Vue.js with Laravel and Inertia? Have you ever wanted to use one of your Vue.js components in a blade template?

What’s the difference between unit test, integration test, and a feature test? Which should you use for what type of test? Is it just preference or does performance factor in when using Laravel? Let me give you my take from over a decade of unit testing experience.

Laravel Sail plugin to enable SSL (HTTPS) connection with Nginx. You need to setup Laravel Sail environment before using the plugin.

I've been writing a bit of a longer article about how we went from 550ms to 94ms in processing time. I run an API observability platform called Treblle and today we process 44M API calls every month.

An interface is a programming structure that allows the computer to enforce certain properties on an object. In object oriented programming, an interface generally defines the set of methods that an instance of a class that has that interface could respond to.

Laravel's Illuminate\Support\Macroable trait allows you extend classes at runtime with custom methods. The idea is that you provide a named Closure, or callable value, which can then be invoked using PHP's __call() and __callStatic() magic methods.

Today, I want to talk about a lesser known feature in Laravel which is console routes. Often, you have console commands which need to run one after the other (especially if you don't want to create one big command).

Testing and Test-Driven Development (TDD) are essential and challenging topics in programming. Especially the switch from just writing some tests to TDD can be tricky. After using TDD for several years, I see three things you need to know to make it work.

Laravel 9 has gained a excellent new way to attach files in mails. Using the Attachable interface, you can specify what should happen when an object gets used as an attachment. Using our media library package you can easily associate any file with an Eloquent model.

Laravel Livewire is on the hype recently. It promises to use the same stack on the backend and frontend with Laravel. By using Livewire, you can create dynamic interfaces like with Vue.js or React. Because, at the end of the day, not everybody has the aspiration for front-end development.

The first version of Teleatherapy was single-tenant, meaning all the resources in the database belonged to one “organisation”, us. This was fine for an early version of the product to get us up and running.

When working with databases with web applications, you never know when some query, which used to work fine, starts slowing down in some scenarios. For instance, in a scenario where the indexing is not done properly or the data being inflated to some table has gotten overwhelmingly large.

TLDR: Publishing Blade views can introduce breaking changes into your app. If you're interested in how to stay safe, see this section. If you've used Laravel packages before, you'll know that many of them use Blade views to render content.

Using this package, you can cache your heavy and most used queries. All you have to do is to define the CacheEntity objects in the model and specify a valid name and ttl for them.

Every application running on Vapor is powered by AWS Lambda, which allows us to run code without needing to think about servers. One of the biggest benefits of this type of infrastructure is that it allows our applications to automatically scale to meet demand with little to no capacity planning.