Eloquent Relations, Creating API and Livewire VS Vue

If you work with a project that has multiple levels of hasMany relationships, you can use hasManyThrough instead, or one of a few packages I will show in this video.

Lately, I see quite a lot of questions like "What is better to use/learn: Livewire or Vue". Let's try to answer with a practical example.

Laravel and Eloquent Collections allow you to combine and chain operations into a shorter one-sentence block. Let's take a look at some examples of map(), mapWithKeys(), each(), filter() and push() methods.

This video is a small live-coding demo project of the case where one controller method is responsible for many DB actions and should be wrapped in a transaction.

What if you want to create an API endpoint that would be public for the whole world? In this video, I will live-code exactly that, including some performance and security measures.

This video will show a few examples of a built-in Laravel HTTP client and how easy it is to interact with external APIs to get some data, both public and with some authentication methods.

If you want to duplicate the existing Eloquent model object, you can do that with one Eloquent method. Alternatively, you can use an external package to copy the relationships as well.

I want to show how to see fake data with relationships, based on the open-source repository and a Youtube series by Andrew Schmelyun.

The Laravel team released v8.50.0 this week with the ability to cancel pending notifications, "pruneable" models, commonmark v2 support, and the latest changes in the 8.x branch: Cancel Notifications Graham Bradley contributed the ability to cancel notifications immediately before sending.

00:00 - Intro
00:26 - Cancelling A Queued Notification
01:42 - Pruning Eloquent Models...

When Livewire first came out I build a smaller scheduling app but as I was building it I noticed things getting out of hand as far as structure. I figured it was because this was new and fresh and I’d work it out as I went.

So you have built a shiny new web app and disabled personal teams, it's time to build and deploy! In this article, we will learn how to set up our Laravel 8 application for builds with GitHub Actions.

What else?

This package provides Laravel Livewire & Bootstrap UI, Auth, & CRUD scaffolding commands to make your development speeds blazing fast.

When reading technical blogpost around the web, you might have noticed that code highlighting is not always perfect. Shiki is the code highlighter that uses the textmate parser VSCode uses under the hood. The code highlighting it provides is near perfect, even when using modern syntax.

Link to Medium article, with Reddit discussion.

As a rule of thumb, we should never run database queries inside a for-loop! For example, let’s say we designed an inventory software and it’s being used in production for a year, and reached 1,000,000 transactions.

TLDR; 5800ms (Laravel Mix) to 224ms (Vite⚡️) on hot-reload! We’ve been using Laravel-Mix for years and it’s been doing pretty good. However, recently we decided to build a project using Inertia.js (which was an awesome decision).

Occasionally, you may need to update an existing record or create a new record if no matching record exists. You will wish to conduct it by one statement, thus UPSERT is your solution UPSERT is one of the essential features of DBMS software for managing the database.

Laravel Artisan Dispatchable is a package by Spatie to register queue jobs as Artisan commands.

I made a sort of quizzlet application on my personal website that people can use. I'm starting with Laravel but over time I'll add more testing topics such as Tailwind, Alpine, Livewire, etc. Just by creating it, I learned so many small nuances that I never knew.

Laravel makes writing HTTP Tests a breeze, but writing tests for request validation can get tricky. For example, given a controller that validates and stores a Cat, how many tests do you write?

The Auto Routes package for Laravel is generates routes from a controller using auto-discovery.

Version Control for Laravel is a package that provides database version control for Eloquent models.

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Working with arrays, there might come a time when you want to check if the array in question is a list or not. So, how does an array qualifies as a “list”? An array can be called a list when the keys (must be in form of an integer) are consecutive in nature.

Vue is a progressive framework for creating impressive user interfaces. If looked at its core, it is focused on the view layer of an application. Integrating Vue JS with various other platforms or existing applications is quite simple.

Watch as I build a custom `@route` directive in (less than) 60 seconds.