Laravel Daily #37: LaraCogs + LaraPulse + LaraCart and a Survey!

Hey guys, need your help and opinion. While working on my QuickAdmin package vision, decided to “get outside the building” and talk to people – what do you actually need? What is the pain point? Is there a problem at all?

Quite often you have a need to check current URL or route and show/hide some element and do some action. Here I will show several ways to do it. Simply – you need to check if URL is exactly like X and then you show something.

In Laravel 5.3+ there is a new feature that allows for multiple migration paths. You may not think its that big a deal, but it will help many packages significantly.

There might be times, when you would want to persist some data for the lifetime of a specific request and be destroyed as soon as the request completes.

About 6 months ago I inherited a project (let’s call it Project Mayhem) that was grossly neglected by the original developer. I won’t go into too many details, but let’s just say that I’ve seen spaghetti with more order than this codebase had.

Prepare your Laravel apps incredibly fast, with various commands, services, facades and boilerplates. Laracogs is a package which can be added to any Laravel 5.1+ app which comes with a handful of commands and helpers to speed up your app development.

https://github.com/MehediDracula/valetThis is repo is fork of https://github.com/cretueusebiu/valet with minor fix

A little announcement, I'll soon start a new project, where I will build a shopping cart (dummy online shop + user management + shopping cart + checkout) with two different languages/ frameworks: Laravel and NodeJS/ ExpressJS.

Marcel Pociot released a new package that will automatically generate API documentation from your existing routes. What is neat is it automatically scans your Controller method docblocks to generate the table of contents and also hooks in with form request validation to show a list of requirements.

LaraCart was built to be a easy , fast , and simple solution for cart based systems. Feel free to make pull requests!

View Composers are very handy when you’re including partials on multiple pages. It will ensure the variables used in the partial, are always set, so you won’t get errors like variable not set.

Hello, Laravel Friends! Have you used macros yet?

Vue.js is a lightweight modern JavaScript framework that is very popular these days. Especially when you do not want the overhead of frameworks like Angular or React, Vue is a great choice. Additionally it is great when you do not need a whole SPA (Single page application).

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During the past few months, myself and a team of developers have been building and maintaining a relatively large application, it’s an all-in-one shop management system for retail and restaurant businesses.

It's true what they say—there seems to be a new JavaScript framework every day. We haven't tried them all at Tighten, but we've tried quite a few, and while we've found some lacking, we've found one that truly excels: Vue.js.

Laravel is a PHP framework that has been taking the PHP development world by storm, its one of the most "Starred" repositories on GitHub and it has a huge and growing worldwide community, all this in just four years.

Today I’ve launched improvements to Forge’s Let’s Encrypt SSL support. From now on, Let’s Encrypt certificates generated via Forge do not require you to manually add a scheduled job to renew them.

Dates are always an important part of any website or app, but they can be a little tricky to deal with, especially for beginners. Here is a list of a few PHP functions and code snippets that will definitely come in handy when dealing with dates.

I recently stumbled across a fascinating question: how could I tell whether an image had changed significantly? As PHP developers, the most troublesome image problem we have to deal with is how to resize an upload with an acceptable loss of quality.

Languages such as Python, Rust, etc. provide a way to write code samples right inside doc-strings. They are supposed to be easy to read and they are called “documentation as tests” because they also can be executed. And Rusty was born.

At my work I’m currently creating a new dashboard. That’s a fancy term for an html page sprinkled with some Vue magic that will be displayed on tv screen at the wall of our office.

MVC is a design pattern that promotes the separation of concerns, it stands for Model View Controller. Note: The MVC pattern is not a topic for beginner php developers, you need OOP knowledge in order to fully understand it.

The first part of this series was an introduction of the PHP Intl extension and of how to localize your application’s messages. In this part, we’re going to learn about localizing numbers, dates, calendars, and similar complex data. Let’s get started!