37 Laravel Tips, Github Actions and New Challenge

There's a new Pull Request to my Laravel Tips repository, with everything we've compiled over the last two months. Let's see some of those new tips!

How well do you know Laravel Routing features? Let's test your knowledge.

Let's try to mimic a real-life scenario where the project is evolving, changing features, and you need to make sure that it doesn't break.

A quick overview of a package to disallow email addresses like mailinator.com and similar ones.

Did you know how easy it is to set up Github Actions with automated tests running on every PR? Let me show you.

Let's take a not-ideally-coded project with routes and try to transform it in this video. I will show you the main ideas of how to make routes/web.php much shorter.

Another weekly video from my car with thoughts about dev-career, and this time I want to answer one of the most common questions I get in the comments.

I've gathered my 26 videos into a separate Code Reviews playlist.

When it comes to queues, the AWS SQS service is a great option. It's super cheap, super reliable, and can scale higher than most of us will ever need. In general, I'm a fan of any service I don't have to manage myself. Most managed services in AWS are rather expensive.

The Laravel team released 8.65 with the ability to generate test files during make commands, a string headline method, getting a subset of data as a collection from the request instance, and the latest changes in the v8.x branch. If you'd like to dig deeper, check out Pull Request #39185.

The newly released spatie/laravel-site-search package can crawl and index the content of one or more sites. You can think of it as a private Google search for your sites. Like most Spatie packages, it is highly customizable: you have total control over what content gets crawled and indexed.

Laravel Signed URLs are great to protect some of your routes by requiring a secret token passed to the URL as a parameter. This is particularly useful for “unsubscribe” links sent by email to your users, or any other action.

Sometimes you will come across a scenario of wanting to update an existing migration column to make it nullable and this is perfectly fine and possible to do in Laravel Migration. In this short snippet, you will learn the steps to make the existing column Nullable using Laravel Migration.

Strings are tricky things to work with when it comes to programming. But thankfully, Laravel provides a lot of helper methods that can fulfill almost all the use-cases you might have when you’re working with strings.

I'll show you in this very first episode of "Laravel Quickies" how you can make use of collections to generate 3-dimensional labels super easily without using a for each loop.

Another video by Mohamed Said.

One of the things I really like about modern Laravel projects, are the new model factories introduced in Laravel 8. When writing complex tests, you often need quite a lot of setup, and features like factories, and especially factory sequences make that setup significantly easier to do.

Once you start diving into the Laravel documentation you’ll find a lot of features that aren’t much talked about in the docs. Other features are used less frequently and chances are that you’re unaware of these features. Models aren’t any different.

A quickstart generator for Laravel projects.

In this article, we’ll learn how to set up an AWS EC2 instance to prepare for the deployment of your Laravel project. Log in into your EC2 instance using ssh as root.

We will see how to build backend for our flutter payment app using some advanced tricks and functions. We build API for flutter using laravel. API covers get and post request in php laravel. You can test them using postman tool. We used laravel with laravel-admin package to build our admin panel. In

Now, I'm going to add social logins using via API. In this example, I'll show you how to integrate Laravel Sanctum authentication with social networks via Facebook, Google and GitHub.

If you use timestamps feature in Laravel, then you got the free feature of auto-update on created_at and update_at columns when the model is created or updated.

We'll go over the weekly release process of doing the releases for our open-source projects.

We will cover how to resize,crop and upload image in laravel using a laravel package called Image Intervention. Lots of developers upload images without cropping, resizing . It causes browsers to load original large images uploaded by the admin or end user .

Laravel 7 came with a new feature, stub customisation. Stub customisation gives the ability to modify the stub files that are used when creating classes such as controllers and tests with the artisan make command.

If you've read the previous articles in the series (or if you have a deep understanding of Livewire in general), you probably see the main flaw with the code above. The uuid is changeable on the frontend, which lets the user change other users' data.

You’re about to read a blog post with a lot of advice. Learning from those who came before us is instrumental to success, but we often forget an important caveat. Almost all advice is contextual, yet it is rarely delivered with any context.

Sometimes when you're building web applications, you might need some functionality that deals with different currencies from around the world. To be able to work with different currencies, you need to find the exchange rates.

Sometimes you need to update the data in your Database. The easiest possibility is to just run an update in your MySQL Database. This is not always working. Especially when you use events or you also want to update relations .... Transactions can cause trouble if not used correctly.

In Laravel, instances of Collections are used absolutely everywhere. There are lots of methods you can use on them. In the beginning, I just used the most well-known methods like map, filter, reduce and first. But there are many more, and some of them are useful shortcuts to reduce boilerplate.