Laravel Exceptions, Fortify and API Tips

I see a lot of developers not using Exception classes and try-catch blocks because they don't understand how they actually work under the hood. So, let's learn with an example.

Almost live-coding video. Let's create a simple contract management system with sales reps and clients. I will generate part of the code with QuickAdminPanel, and then we dive into Laravel customizations.

I've worked on a number of Laravel applications that require storing, handling and performing calculations with money. It can be a painful experience if done wrong. There are some great packages out there to help, but I always end up repeating myself. Mula is here to solve that problem.

Aimeos and Bagisto are the most popular Laravel ecommerce packages. There have been a lot of noise around ecommerce for Laravel lately and this article tries to shed some light into the discussion.

Today, I am going to drop a simple hint, how to implement search functionality in your crud app, this will allow you to just get a specific item or items that have a similar name from the search result in a list of hundreds or even thousands of data from the database.

Laravel Livewire was created by Caleb Porzio that allows you to add reactivity to your Laravel applications. If you are not familiar with Laravel Livewire, I would recommend reading this introduction to Livewire tutorial first.

My colleague Ruben released a new Spatie package to generate type declarations in TypeScript from a Laravel application. We’re writing out types two times: one time in PHP and one time in TypeScript.

In above snippet, we used Laravel Http Client and a third party service (https://ip-api.com/) to get user’s timezone from his IP address, then save it to database. There are many other free or commercial third party services to choose from. Search and find one that suit your needs.

For hotlaps.io I generate typed field accessors for every model field to get easier access to the data stored in a model. The accessors being typed also helps with static analysis to spot errors in my code right away and other tools help a VSCode extension I use to autocomplete code as I type.

PHP 8 is around the corner and it is coming packed with a lot of new features. But there’s something exciting cooking in PHP 8.1 already. Remember arrow functions which were released way back with PHP 7.4? This is the feature where the following…

Laravel API resources are a great tool to format json resources to be returned by an API endpoint. If you are not familiar with this part of the framework, the Laravel documentation will help you. Clean and simple right? But if you are not careful, you may fall in a common issue: n+1 queries.

How do you protect your API routes - say for a contact us form. So someone can’t just punch it in postman and go to town on posting requests ? This is what Captcha was made for. Aside from that, CSRF and rate limiting, you can also adopt a WAF solution like Cloudflare, Sucuri, Imperva, etc.

Recently, I had a bit of a headache going back and forth with our mobile team while developing the v2 of an API because we didn't originally plan for it, and models changed since the original release.

Laravel Fortify is a frontend agnostic authentication backend for Laravel. Fortify powers the registration, authentication, and two-factor authentication features of Laravel Jetstream. It consists of the backend features of Laravel Jetstream but with a flexibility of customizing the scaffolding alon

So, I really do like Laravel Jetstream, but I'm not 100% ready to go all in on those tech stacks, just yet. Thankfully, u/TaylorCodes gave us Laravel Fortify!

This is the kinda stuff we should share to people who thinks that php codes are garbage... Let them know what's going on I'm not even sure. I feel like the whole "readable code that reads like a sentence" is pretty much a PHP (and even a Laravel) thing.

Hey there. Judging from the comments so far the following might be a hot take but bear with me.

Before beginning, make sure you have Composer and npm installed. First, create a Laravel project.

Laravel offers some good tools for debugging and for many cases this may be enough — but if it gets choppy, a real debugger is simply unbeatable. In this small article I show how to configure PhpStorm to use xDebug to debug a Laravel app. Official installation guide: https://xdebug.

This progress package is a simple way of taking multiple steps in a process and using them to create a progression system. You can define your steps through an expressive and simple API and let this package handle the heavy lifting.

Of course, the maturity of the framework, and previous experiences would be unlikely to produce a framework where you could not override default behaviour. Suppose we need to redirect the user as they are logging in based on some user attribute. With Fortify, how might this be possible?