Redis in Laravel, API Examples and Laravel Pulse

Looking at Laravel job descriptions, you will find Redis quite often. This tutorial will cover the basics of using it with Laravel and how to use it in your projects. In this tutorial, we will cover both.

Many Laravel developer jobs require not only creating APIs but also interacting with other 3rd-party APIs. In this lengthy tutorial, we will show four examples of such APIs: Let's go, one by one.

All of you probably use the Carbon class in Laravel for date/time operations. But have you heard about CarbonImmutable? It may rescue you from one potential bug. Let me explain its use case in this short tutorial. Let's say we have a variable, which is a carbon instance. It shows 9 am.

PHP has a lot of built-in constants. Some are useful when working with files, and some with integers. But they all have one thing in common - they are all available globally. This short tutorial will look at typical examples and use cases found in Laravel.

Filament 3 Infolist feature has a few entry types like TextEntry and others. But what if you need something custom? In this tutorial, we will create a custom Infolist entry to add a Show more/Show less button. This is based on a question from our YouTube channel.

We recently received a question on our YouTube channel, so in this tutorial, we will answer it. In this tutorial, we will see how we can add a form above a table list in a resource.

Let me show you an example that will explain to you when your methods should be public vs private.

Let's analyze the source of the Laravel Activity log model that uses polymorphic relations.

This week, we'll review the code of the new Laravel Pulse to learn a few tricks from there. Today we start with migrations.

Let's examine a few examples of Laravel Pulse related to an approach that is different from classical MVC.

A rarely used PHP syntax that I've found in the Laravel Pulse code.

Have you seen that "..." syntax in some PHP functions? Let me explain with a few examples.

I'm often asked about the future of Laravel and related technologies. Let me explain my opinion about it.

Laravel Pulse is a brand new free and open source performance monitoring and insights tool for Laravel applications. It was announced at Laracon AU 2023 by Jess Archer from the Laravel core team. Laravel Pulse gives you an aggregate view of performance data for your Laravel app.

If you'd like to create your own custom Pulse Cards, check out the documentation to see how to create cards you can display on your application dashboard. You can add this custom Pulse card to your application by following the readme installation instructions on Github.

Laravel Pulse is a lightweight application monitoring tool for Laravel. It was just released today and I took a bit of time to create a custom card to show outdated composer dependencies. The hooks are all very well thought through.

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Tune in as James, a software engineer at Laravel, shares his expertise on API documentation and makes a playful case for why Marmite is superior to Vegemite.

We get Laravel working in a subdirectory, using Nginx configuration. This is great for multiple Laravel installations, or when you just have a second Laravel running inside of any subdirectory.

The Laravel code base is not literally in a subdirectory of a parent code base, instead we just use Nginx

I recently wrote an article about how to separate and (optionally) skip your Jetstream tests. I figured I'd make a quick video, too, showing how i did it.

In this video, we will refactor a dependent dropdown component in Laravel Livewire to make it more efficient and easier to maintain.

"What's new in Laravel" is back! We will share new features of the Laravel framework every week again

If your web application allows users to upload files, there are a few things to consider and be aware of before deploying file uploads to production. This article will assume you're using a storage service like S3 to store your user's files.

You might think the development of the software is the difficult part, but I’m here to put that in perspective. Using existing tools we will build a fully-functioning SaaS in a single weekend! Keep reading to learn how you can do that too.

Attributes offer the ability to add structured, machine-readable metadata information on declarations in code: Classes, methods, functions, parameters, properties and class constants can be the target of an attribute.

What's the best windows dev experperience? Herd is mac only, so that's out. I usually go native, but I like the option to be able to change PHP / DB v

The Laravel team released v10.35 with a Blade @use directive, a number abbreviation helper, the ability to generate a secret with artisan down, and more. Here is a bit more info about the new features introduced this week:

On one hand, caching strategies can offer considerable gains in performance. On the other hand, those gains may be at the cost of increased complexity within the codebase or infrastructure. Plus, there is always the threat that caching is providing out-of-date data.

Why does Cloudflare cause a problem? It acts as a reverse proxy server. That means that all the requests from all of your different users are funneled through the Cloudflare network.

In this series, you'll get your feet wet with a variety of fun examples that demonstrate how to interact with OpenAI using PHP and Laravel. We'll begin by assuming that you know nothing, and then slowly work our way up one episode at a time!