Free Laravel SPA Starter and Auth Quick Tips

While answering a question on Youtube about structuring Vue components for the pages, I decided to turn it to a special project that could be re-usable - both for myself, and for you guys.

Have you ever needed to change DB structure on a project that is already live, with user data? In this video, I will show you the process I suggest for that.

Another *practical* video of helping someone on Laracasts forum to query the data. This video has a "plot twist" where I decided to make my code even better.

A follow-up video to the one I made in Feb 2019, this time focused on my Youtube channel earnings. I show ALL numbers of income, Stripe dashboard, revenue per course, etc. Useful for you, if you're planning to start, or already are in the process of creating your own software product or an online course.

My new article on Laravel News! Laravel has a great out-of-the-box Auth system, but surely we need to customize things here and there. For some of them, no need to look for external packages or write a lot of custom code, let’s explore what interesting abilities are hiding under the hood of Auth.

Laravel 8 offers a shiny new way to group multiple jobs into one batch. This will allow you to easily check how many job there are in a batch, what to total progress is and even cancel all jobs in a batch.

I'm considering re-entering the job market after a long period and am gearing to sharpen my interviewing skills. In recent years I've migrated my current company's projects to Laravel and want to find a position within the Laravel ecosystem because I like the taste of the kool-aid.

It's been over a year in the making and I happy to say it's here: the Laravel Beyond CRUD book and video course are now available.

The plan is for Laravel 8 to be released on September 8th, and in anticipation, Taylor has been hinting at some of the new features that will be coming to the framework. Let’s take a look at some of these. You will no longer have to manually restart php artisan serve if you update your “.

Slides from the talk by Marcel Pociot.

Streamed live on 25 Aug 2020

You know it’s always a good idea to have something at your disposal using which you can improve the performance of your applications.

Hey there! I know you’ve already read the news that PHP 8 is coming in November 2020! You’ve probably read tons of articles that list the new features in this version.

A client came to me with a new requirement for their website: to be able to embed content from multiple services (YouTube, Vimeo, Slideshare etc.). This is a fairly common requirement, particularly for embedding things like YouTube videos and it's a problem I've solved multiple times.

Laravel Swoole claims to be 5x faster than plain Laravel. TechEmpower Benchmarks proves the claim. I've also tried on local environment. It definitely feels faster. But wanted to know if someone using it in production can prove the same. Tbh on most apps database is the bottleneck.

45-minute Youtube video.

I keep forgetting how to send an email in Laravel without using Mailables. The the documentation does not help so I’m writing this down here for future reference.

This writing is not me trying to say which is right or wrong. Besides sharing my experience, this story is also for my reminder for other similar cases in the future. So anyone who has worked with Laravel must know that one of the best things about Eloquent is “eager loading”.

Disclaimer: We spend some months testing exhaustively before going to production. Please, be careful and patient in order to really validate it. Hello, today I’m going to tell how I improved the efficiency of my company app by changing PHP-FPM to Swoole.

Laravel provides an excellent way to hook into a certain event in your application using Events and Listeners. This feature will allow you to subscribe and listen to various activities that took place in your application.

If GitHub is your daily driver or you’ve contributed to open source at some point, you’ve probably seen the comparison screen before. They’re not lying. You can compare a lot in there, but most of it isn’t available in the UI. Here are a few tricks you probably didn’t know about.