Live-Coding Series, Creating Package and New Releases

A new series of live-coding videos (2 videos published so far!), as I'm creating a landlords-tenants management system in Laravel 5.6. In this video - I'm generating an admin panel to manage properties and landlords, along with database structure. Will upload to Github as soon as the project is done.

So you want to create your own package? Surprisingly, this topic has little information online and not properly described in the official docs. Let’s fill in the gaps and create a new Laravel 5 package from scratch.

laravel-medialibrary is a powerful package that can help handle media in a Laravel application. It can organise your files across multiple filesystems, generate thumbnails, optimize images and much much more. At Spatie we use this package in nearly every project.

Laravel 5.6.12 shipped over the weekend with added support for signed routes and URLs along with quite a few other new additions.

In the latest Laravel 5.6.12 Release a new signed URLs feature was introduced. In this article, we’ll work on enabling signed URLs in an application and look at a few options of how to use them.

Developers love to automate things—for every process between development and production, they are keen to have a script that makes their workflow easier. This is also the case with deployment.

I recently had a need to be able to migrate and seed a staging database with live/production database data. The way I managed to do this was through 2 database connections and a specific staging environment only seed file. Want more detail? Here is a full explanation on how it all works.

Laravel 5 Domain / APP_URL Enforcement An automatic piece of middleware for Laravel 5.

Customize relations on your models as necessary in your domain. Don't be afraid to add more relations that describe your logic better.

Laravel Excel (https://github.com/Maatwebsite/Laravel-Excel) turned 4 years last November and has reached almost 6 million Packagist downloads. A good time to reflect on 4,5 years of open source development. On the 9th of November 2013 I made the first public commit to Laravel Excel.

Recently, I decided to learn the basics of the Symfony (4) framework, so that I could better understand one of my client's applications, and provide better support to it. I never expected to use such a well-rounded framework. Nor did I expect to encounter such an engaged and supportive community.

Quick and Dirty PHP website hosting (with PHP support) using Aws Lambda (i.e. pay by requests instead of paying a fixed monthly hosting fees).

Developing APIs are getting more and more popular, but still, it’s a bit blurry field for many developers.  We collected some common questions and tried to answer them in one place. Wikipedia provides a helpful and understandable description of APIs in general.