Laravel DB Structure, Free Tools, and Many Tips

A video from my upcoming course on structuring Laravel DB. Let's discuss JSON column types and their usage.

This is a free lesson from my upcoming course on DB structure in Laravel. Let's test the flexibility and performance of a so-called "EAV model" of structuring the DB.

Want your code to be more readable for teammates? Belgian company Spatie has a page full of various guidelines, let's discuss some of them.

A new feature released this week in the newest minor Laravel version, which allows to use PHP Anonymous Classes for migrations and avoid naming conflicts in the future.

What are Service Providers? How to use them? When/how to create your own one? Difference between register() and boot() methods? All the answers in this video.

What if you need to log or debug some SQL/Eloquent query from API? So it's not visual, and you can't use something like Laravel Debugbar. Meet another package - Laravel Telescope.

How to call events between two Livewire components and reload the data in the form? A new component on my Livewire Kit, and a video lesson for you.

If you ever wanted to create a single page application with Laravel, you probably found this repo from cretueusebiu. It's awesome, I've personally used it to start two projects that are still in production today. However it comes with Bootstrap, which I'm not using anymore.

Laravel open-source repository to learn from.

Wave is the ultimate Software as a Service Starter Kit packed with awesome features like authentication, subscriptions, invoices, announcements, user profiles, etc.

In the following lines we will build an authentication system using sanctum.

So I was going to write an in-depth blogpost about using fibers in PHP 8.1. We were going to start with a basic example to explain them from the ground up. The idea was to send async HTTP requests and process them in parallel using fibers.

Laravel log file helps we developers in so many ways such logging of data and more importantly is that all errors generated by our web application are be logged in our laravel log file which is located at storage\logs\laravel.

For many developers, event sourcing is a magical beast that's used to build extremely complex, often distributed projects.

Grex is a command-line tool and library for generating regular expressions from user-provided test cases. Grex is both a library (Rust) and a command-line tool meant to simplify creating regular expressions.

Earlier today we shipped an enhancement to Laravel Forge that stores the ID of the user who initiated an event. At first glance, you may be wondering why this is a big deal and you're probably asking yourself why I'm writing a blog post about it. All good thoughts. Let's dive into it!

I'm proud to announce that our team has released a new package called spatie/laravel-stats. This package is a lightweight solution for summarizing changes in your database over time. Here's a quick example where we will track the number of subscriptions and cancellations over time.

In the first part, we will be implementing pagination using Vue.js and Laravel.

Video on Youtube.

This Tech Talk is free and open to everyone. Register below to get a link to join the live stream or receive the video recording after it airs. Laravel Jetstream is an application starter kit for Laravel and lets us build Laravel apps quickly. We get authentication, API, and more out of the box.

I’ve been building a new side project that queries the GitHub API a lot; enough that I’m likely to hit my rate limit semi-regularly.

This might be a dumb question, but on the surface jobs and events seem like they do the same thing. So what's the difference between them? Both can be dispatched immediately or queued. Both encapsulate a chunk of code into a reusable class. Why would I use events instead of jobs?

I'm thrilled to announce the release of a new package. It's a DataTables-like package for Inertia, Laravel, and Vue that comes with Tailwind-styled components and great features! You can search through your data, both globally and per attribute. There's support for pagination, sorting, column toggling, and you can predefine filters. Furthermore, it integrates seamlessly with Spatie's Laravel Query Builder.

PHP 8 is finally here! PHP 8.0 is a major update of the PHP language.

This post will show you how to customize stubs used to generate various classes in your application.

On one of the projects I'm working on we've decided to switch to using UUIDs as our publicly facing identifiers (in routes, API requests, etc).

PHP comes with a native way to handle sessions. Laravel is using its own. This article explains how. Your web application can store whatever it wants on the clients cookie. For example, the username and the information that the user is logged in.

LivewireUI Modal is a Livewire component that provides you with a modal that supports multiple child modals while maintaining state. Add the Livewire directive @livewire('livewire-ui-modal') and also the Javascript @livewireUIScripts directive to your template.

We send an HTTP request that returns an array of items, then we store the name of each item in a $names array. Executing this function will take time that's equal to the duration of the request plus the time it took to build the array.

The Laravel team released 8.36 with a custom stub option when creating controllers, a useCurrentOnUpdate method for blueprint datetime columns in MySQL, a dispatch_sync() helper function, and the latest changes in the 8.x branch: